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I've finally just decided that I don't really care one way or another. If someone wants to get strung out on something, then that's fine with me -- as long as they show up for work on Monday morning and don't make themselves a burden on anyone else.

I understand the reasoning and for the most part agree, but we are no longer in a country where we can live and let live. We are socialists now. Any increased medical expenses, or inability of others to pay their medical expenses by not being able to work, does have a direct affect on me now. What someone else does with their own bodies is now of critical importance to me.

We are socialists now. Any increased medical expenses, or inability of others to pay their medical expenses by not being able to work, does have a direct affect on me now. What someone else does with their own bodies is now of critical importance to me.

Then you are a socialist. Instead of concerning yourself with what someone else does with their own body, why don't you concern yourself with THROWING OFF the mechanism of socialism???????

That's exactly why many socialist countries where the socialism is constructed through a homogenous social order treat drug dealers so harshly under the law.

According an article I found online (I can't find the link right now, and I'm running out the door), the ten countries in the world with the harshest drug laws are:

1. Singapore (drug traffickers are hanged, even if they are foreigners
2. Malaysia (mandatory death sentence for anyone caught with seven ounces of marijuana, or half an ounce of heroin)
3. Iran
4. Indonesia (they using firing squads for executing drug dealers, and the penalty for simple drug possession is 10-15 years in prison)
5. Saudi Arabia
6. China
7. United Arab Emirates
8. Vietnam
9. Sweden
10. Japan

There is a disproportionate number of Asian countries here, but what they all have in common is that their populations are very homogenized -- which means they don't take sh!t from anyone and don't feel a need to apologize to unassimilated minorities who can't live up to the expectations of the majority of the population.

One of the things that shocked the heck out of me some years ago was that many terms and phrases commonly used in a drug-addled culture like ours -- such as "crack baby," for example -- can't even be translated into many Asian languages because they have no meaning there.