[Rocksalt]

"The burden is on you to support YOUR claim, not on me to refute YOUR claim. As it stands, your claim is unsupported and has no weight."

This is from the very first drug resource website I tapped into:www.getgoing.com Drug treatment specialists.





" Yet marijuana is a far less addictive and dangerous drug for most people than cocaine or heroin. These drugs are so pleasurable that for some people, it is not safe to try them even once. Using heroin or cocaine, powdered or crack (rock), even one time causes such intense cravings for some individuals that they use it again and again, rapidly becoming addicted.

Crack is the most highly addictive of all the drugs available because it is smoked and therefore stimulates the brain directly. The high lasts only a few minutes, so the user soon needs more in order to sustain the energized, grandiose, and powerfully euphoric feeling it produces. Some people cannot give that feeling up and sacrifice their jobs or lives to keep using crack. Recreational use of heroin and cocaine, particularly crack, is the way many people get addicted."

Now you tell me how common it is for people to become late stage alcoholics in the same amount of time.

"Here's the plan: treat drugs exactly like alcohol."

That would mean goverment control.ATF,state agencys,etc.You explain how it could be otherwise.

"I favor restricting police to their legitimate duty of protecting individual rights."

And what if this will of course include protecting individual citizens from the crazed speed freaks who will have easy access to it and then turn violent.

I favor legal access for a system of registered addicts,and do not feel it is wise to facillitate narcotics addiction for the general populace.

[MrLeRoy]

for some people, it is not safe to try them even once.

For SOME people, fine. SOME people are susceptible to sugar addiction; should we ban sugar?

Now you tell me how common it is for people to become late stage alcoholics in the same amount of time.

Why compare the ONSET of crack addiction to LATE STATE alcohol addiction?

"Here's the plan: treat drugs exactly like alcohol."

That would mean goverment control.ATF,state agencys,etc.

As I say in post 65, "I advocate a LESSENING of state controls. As I said, 'More freedom is better than less. Respect for freedom does not obligate one to make the best an enemy of the good.'"

And what if this will of course include protecting individual citizens from the crazed speed freaks who will have easy access to it and then turn violent.

Police should protect individuals from all violence.

From the U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service (publication NCJ 145534): "Of all psychoactive substances, alcohol is the only one whose consumption has been shown to commonly increase aggression. [...] Marijuana and opiates temporarily inhibit violent behavior [...] There is no evidence to support the claim that snorting or injecting cocaine stimulates violent behavior. [...] Anecdotal reports notwithstanding, no research evidence supports the notion that becoming high on hallucinogens, amphetamines, or PCP stimulates violent behavior in any systematic manner."

I [...] do not feel it is wise to facillitate narcotics addiction for the general populace.

So your "wisdom" trumps individual rights?