[SatinDoll]

Singapore has done a fairly good job.

I do not see any problem with executing drug traffickers or drug users, but then my sister and BIL are addicts being supported by Social Security - that’s our tax dollars at work!

[Ken H]

I do not see any problem with executing drug traffickers or drug users, but then my sister and BIL are addicts being supported by Social Security - that’s our tax dollars at work!

So have you contacted the police? Offered to help get the goods on them?

If not, why not? Suppose they murdered someone. Would you remain silent?

[CowboyJay]

"Singapore has done a fairly good job."

This isn't Singapore. Geographically and culturally there's just no comparison. And completely denying access to narcotics in the US would require a police state the size and scope of which would have made Hitler drool with envy. We can't even keep narcotics out of our maximum security prisons, and you somehow think we're going to magically keep them off the streets in any kind of free society?

NEVER stump for any tool of gov't control you wouldn't want to fall into the hands of the absolute WORST elements of society, because eventually - INEVITABLY - the worst of the worst will get their hands on the wheel. Sociopaths are drawn to power like flies to outhouses. Good men in power are the exception, not the rule, so overall the less power we hand our government the better.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

How much effort would it take to eliminate the demand here, in the U.S.A., for cocaine?

It would take a police state.

Singapore has done a fairly good job.

Like I said. I prefer the limited government envisioned by the Founders - but then, I'm an American conservative.

I do not see any problem with executing drug traffickers or drug users, but then my sister and BIL are addicts being supported by Social Security - that’s our tax dollars at work!

So oppose that big-government abuse - don't use it to rationalize even more big government.