[TheSpottedOwl]

Both conservatives and liberals have waged their war on drugs for decades, and they have reaped nothing but drug gangs, drug lords, robberies, thefts, muggings, murders, dirty needles, overcrowded prisons, decimated families, record drug busts, government corruption, infringements on civil liberties, violations of financial privacy, massive federal spending, and, of course, ever-glowing statistics reflecting drug-war “progress.”

I cannot disagree with the above statement. If my dad was alive, he'd be 95. I was a late blessing, haha! Anyway, my dad told me that you could buy things over the counter at any drug store that are now against the law, and that Coca Cola actually had a dash of....cocaine! Oh and he drove his mother out from MA to CA to visit friends, when he was 12 : )

The war on drugs is just another miserable government failure, unless you consider all the people who are now felons, civil liberties trampled, lives ruined, etc.

No, I don't partake of anything illegal.

[MadIvan]

I regard people who take drugs as being vaguely suicidal. But never mind, if they want to do it, OK - however - it should be a crime to operate any vehicle under the influence, and absolutely no tax dollars should go towards keeping them alive.

Regards, Ivan

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

a very realistic , informative post!