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Like the 18th Amendment really worked in Chicago... My Grandfather would drive his truck to Detroit from the North Side and pick up 5 gallon tins of alky, on contract to Dion O'Banion. He would buy a few extra for his own bar, the one he ran for my great-grandmother. Cut 50% with water, colored with caramelized sugar, a dab of iodine for bourbon, and kerosene for scotch. Turpentine was for gin or vodka, not sure which. This is all family lore. (My dad remembered running the bottle capper.)
The War on Drugs is such a rousing success, after all. I still think it just a way to funnel federal price supports to the gangs, in exchange for votes.

For your consideration: Who uses drugs, and if they die, would it it such a terrible loss?

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You MIGHT feel differently if your young daughter were the drug user.
Or, if drug dealers showed up in YOUR neighborhood.
Or, if your son got involved with the "wrong" female who misused him.

Would YOU so easily dismiss the young ones?

The question isn't that we make war on bad stuff. It's that AT LEAST we TRY to.
Where would it stop? ANYONE can do ANYTHING to him/herself AND bring other, less strong people into their chaos>

Are we not are brother's keeper, Cain?

Had a brother who started pot at 14. He lasted until he was 44. As bright as he was, no great loss. He's buried in the National Cemetery in Florida, the Potter's field for Florida vets. (Before you blame PTSD, he spent 2 years at Ft. Campbell, getting wasted, before a UD. Somehow, I don't feel that qualifies for a "Thank you for your service.")

In my worldview, logic trumps emotion. I'm too much the agnostic, having known WAY too many hypocritical "Christians" to have any belief in what they were selling. It's why, if and when there is a CW2, I will, no doubt, be labeled a war criminal.

Everyone is going to die. What you contribute to the world before that is your legacy.

Druggies are the slow ones who would have gotten in the way of the mammoth. The Chinese simply executed them out of hand, recognizing a genetic weakness. Our current Morality forbids that kind of eugenic solution. (I might point out that you do not hear much of drug abuse in the PRC, or among the Asian population here in the US. Is it coincidence?)

Why not let them painlessly kill themselves, since they can't handle reality?