[jackieaxe]

The part where smoking crack and becoming a menace to society is a noble human right. In your original post you were talking about caning "dope heads"

Your thoughts on caning dope heads is a good idea. Its not so much that I think lengthy jail time is a good idea, as it is that there is no good alternative available. I think one month of truly hard labor would be a far better idea for a pot head than 6 months in jail.

Now you are talking about crackheads. Regardless, until the crackhead starts commiting violence or stealing from somebody it shouldn't be the government's business.

[SampleMan]

In your original post you were talking about caning "dope heads"
Now you are talking about crackheads. Regardless, until the crackhead starts committing violence or stealing from somebody it shouldn't be the government's business.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to leave anyone out, of course, we could cane all of them. All better now?

Do you support speed limits? If so, why? No law has been broken other than the speed limit, so why not wait for the crash? Doubling or tripling the death rate is a small price to pay for an esoteric victory, right? Because why have laws based on predictable likely outcome? Indeed, why bother regulating nuclear power plants? Just wait and see if a problem develops.

Before you get started on the cheap and easy drug mantra, tell me this, how did freely available, priced-right opium work out for the Chinese?

The inability to venture into a gray area and draw a line is a sign of intellectual immaturity. You want to preclude all decisions, because its a slippery slope to bad decisions. Well, no decision at all is often bad. The Democracies that have failed have done so because they have failed to provide the rule of law. Think about that the next time you're giving lectures on the tyranny of banning pot.