[Ken H]

No, it's a big probem for a teeny-tiny percentage of the population.

Well, gosh golly! I thought all of society was victimized. Now it's just a big problem for a teeny-tiny %. I guess heroin is just a teeny-tiny problem, at worst, for everyone else!

You're the one distorting the facts -- using end-points 25 years apart and talking about drug use "shooting up" 30%.

I was using NHSDA numbers 25 years apart... just like you did. You should be ashamed!

[Zon]

On this thread and the The Science of Medical Marijuana Prohibition (Op-Ed) thread of same time frame, robertpaulsen's own arguments have shot himself in the foot so many times his ankles are bloody stumps.

[robertpaulsen]

"I thought all of society was victimized"

Heroin use, as does all recreational drug use, has an effect on society, not just on the user.

"I was using NHSDA numbers 25 years apart... just like you did."

As was demonstrated in the posts following, I did so honestly. You did not.