[Phantom Lord]

This may seem harsh and unsympathetic, and so be it.

Thousands of people die every year from over usage or incorrect usage of innumerable things. Both legal and illegal.

Your post reminds me of the "if it saves just one life it is worth it" nonsense.

It is not the governments job to protect us from ourselves.

And currently illegal drugs should have been banned in the way alcohol was. Constitutional amendment. No where in the constitution is the federal government granted an enumerated power giving it the authority to tell me or anyone else what we can and can not put into our bodies.

[swarthyguy]

>>No where in the constitution is the federal government granted an enumerated power giving it the authority to tell me or anyone else what we can and can not put into our bodies.

Oy, you’re such a traditionalist, what about the public health, general welfare, and the CHILDREN, DAMMIT IT, MAN, THE CHILLUN!

Get with the modern statists, dude.