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Right now in my lifetime, in California, punishment for causing death while drunk has gone from misdemeanor “Reckless Driving” to “Second Degree Murder.”

I'm all for that, whatever the intoxicating substance. But it certainly doesn't mean that one intoxicating substance should be legal while a less addictive intoxicating substance is illegal.

Nether should be "legal." By the way Prohibition did work. America in the late 18th and early 19th was heavily into alcoholic beverages. Children would carry around "toddies" of rum nursing them the entire day. Drunkenness was quite common. The temperance movement stared in the 1840's-(the longest running play in American history was "The Drunkard.")-and it worked, yes Carrie Nation had a beneficial effect. America sobered up.

Now as to the silly remark that we cannot allow alcohol but suppress drugs has a multitude of hidden premises. Besides we discriminate in the application of criminal law all the time; i.e. Petty Theft is not treated the same as killing while lying in wait, killing by torture.

There is simply no basis for allowing substances such as drugs and it is not worth while bandying words with drug addled brains. Once simply commands them! One does not debate, discuss or "express different points of view"with the addicted whether alcoholic or drug. There is too much shrieking and moaning over the bad elements in our society.