Ironically, while there weren’t a lot of planes or trucks crashing due to illegal drugs—there was a lot of mayhem and turmoil and crime perpetrated by welfare recipients over the years either in full or exacerbated by drugs. Our cities were ruined.
The real-life Murphy Brown single mom making big bucks and having a baby by herself as a lifestyle choice, or the Marin County trust-fund hippies having some “happy smoke” in their hot tubs might not cause a whole lot of trouble per se (although I think they are both wrong, pretty much), but for the average inner city resident, who, in all candor, is probably, on average, a lost cause no matter what-the kind of person whom the great Eric Hoffer was talking about when he said, circa 1970:
“The cores of our cities are packed with people who lack the enterprise to take advantage of opportunities, and the character to lack temptation”
it’s a different kettle of fish. Legalization-in our present society, would be even more ruinious-like Communism it’s fine on paper, but it wouldn’t be-what’s the answer? Like someone said on FR about this-cut welfare pretty much altogether-reserve it for those who must have it due to physical/mental issues, or are recovering from disasters, etc.Then we don’t need to worry about it.