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I found that interesting, too. I'm used to those who say pot should be legal, and my attitude toward that is one of let's see how things in the two states who have legalized it go.

A concern is that what I am hearing and what the official story is, are not exactly coinciding.

That anyone in their right mind would open the market to any more addictive and destructive drugs, especially ones with such a horrible track record is amazing to me.

Alcohol, cigarettes bad, but heroin OK? Really??

Not long after the Great Society kicked in, smack became a tool of destroying entire black communities (not being racist, that just seemed to be the place it hit hardest). With the erosion of the family values in those communities by welfare and the absolution of responsibility and stripping of authority of males in the community, the destruction was devastating in a social sense.

Now, other demographics family values have been subject to attack in pop culture, and the Caucasian male has been torn down on TV and by the constant meme of 'evil white male', so maybe the reintroduction of Heroin to the streets is designed to perform similar destruction in a white community with its family values eroded by divorce, unemployment, and dependency on the State. It would be coming at a time when many people's self-respect is at a low, and that is fertile ground to grow addiction in.

These things do have a pattern, and although it is stretched out over decades, it seems to be repeating, (not that any community will be well served by the reintroduction of smack).

The other addictive drugs have their target demographics: cocaine was for yuppies, MDMA for ravers and the young club set, crack was more of a street drug, Meth--any fool who would want to go faster.

LSD and mushrooms for those who wanted to be elsewhere...

Turn all that loose on a youthful population with little moral guidance from official sources, and who isn't in rehab or addicted will be struggling to keep their family clean, their neighborhood decent, and their self, family, and stuff safe.

No good would come of it, but drug lords and those on the take would get rich.

Having witnessed the destruction wrought, I wonder how any moral person could claim legalizing and taxing it (thus building government on the abject and avoidable suffering of others--if not the addicts, then those around them) is a good idea.

Those dealing it are the ones who gain, deal with them in the most harsh terms. For the users, rehab can take a year or more if successful. That is going to outweigh the gains, because the addicts aren't going to be the ones picking up the tab.