[ndt]

"Oh yeah? Tell that to the next person shot or stabbed by some junkie who is high from smoking crack made from Bolivian cocaine. Tell that to those of us who get accosted by drugged-out beggars every day."

With a U.S. made gun no doubt. Are you suggesting we close down gun manufacturing too? You seem to be all for lack of personal responsibility, so why not. Yes, this is sarcasm.

I'm not saying that we should legalize cocaine nor that we should stop trying to limit importation. I am saying that our current approach to minimizing the damage from drugs does not work, as should be evident by the fact we spend billions of dollars and you're still afraid of being gunned or stabbed by a crack head.

I do believe in a prevention and treatment vs. incarceration and military incursions method of dealing with it. So if you want to criticize that great we can continue.

P.S. Cocaine and cocaine manufacture is STILL illegal in Bolivia. It is just traditional use of coca that he is legitimizing the production of.

[The Old Hoosier]

You seem to be all for lack of personal responsibility

No, I'm all for not endangering the public, that's part of why governments exist. I don't care whose responsibility it is, I want people who act like rabid animals, slaves to dangerous, mind-altering addictions, to be locked up and far away from me and my family.

I can't see what you're talking about in terms of responsibility, unless you are implying that it's my responsibility if one of these people kills me.