[little jeremiah]

God gave us poisonous mushrooms, too.

BTW my solution for ending the WOD is very simple.

1. Allow people to grow their own pot and opium poppies for personal use only.

2. NO selling or “giving away”. Do it yourself only.

3. Public caning for selling, second offense double caning, third offense, execution.

4. All dope dealers get executed.

5. No legalization of other hard drugs.

So, problem solved very simply, and anyone who wants to get wasted on their own efforts can do so. The harsh penalties for selling plus the ease of growing it oneself will take all the money out of it in no time.

[Ken H]

That's infinitely better than the current prohibition policy, but why not simply follow the Constitution?

Let each state determine its own drug policy. That would be in keeping with the original Commerce Clause and Tenth Amendment.

[aces]

yep, but no one wants to eat poisonous mushrooms, I agree with you, I was in the music business in my youth and saw a lot of folks die using cocaine and heroin, I never touched the stuff, smoked weed 30 years ago..no reason to persecute folks for it..the rest is another story..money should be spent to rehab and educate if offenders are not violent..otherwise..life...