[muir_redwoods]

"I would say everything is give and take, but we can't allow chemical use in our personal life or at work without review, we'd get IMO a ton more people killing themselves and damaging others and I bet the bottom line would be a hell of a lot more public tax dollars out the door."

Do you seriously imagine, for even a moment, that any of these stupid, pointless, expensive laws reduce consumption to any measurable degree? Really?

If so ,there's this bridge....

BTW< My only drug is coffee, no pot, booze nor anything else.

[A CA Guy]

I'm all for a bullet to the head of the drug runners who are caught trying to enter the USA bringing lots of the stuff in from Mexico and elsewhere.
The bulk of it comes from outside out country and Mexico who is basically a drug lord run country would itself benefit IMO if the drug lords got assassinated.

I believe in law enforcement in our country as well, we keep murders down with the threat of paying a price, so why wouldn't paying a price not REDUCE the crimes related to drugs?

We have never stopped all murders with law, and in the same way you will never end all the drug losers from using, but you can reduce participation and increases in addiction nationally, just as we do murder.