[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Hmmm. I'll have to keep track of this issue. I'm for legalizing pot, but if this really turns out to be true, w/pot being a causative agent in mental illness, I may have to support it for medicinal purposes only. After all, to truly be free, you need a clear head...

However, I STILL won't support the War on Some Drugs, with its lousy asset forfeiture and spying...

[NewRomeTacitus]

It was reported that there's now over 2 million people incarcerated in the U.S.
I was shocked when we passed a million just a few years ago. The private prison industry ran with that ball.
Seeing as how 25% of prisoners are illegal aliens and close to 40% are there on drug charges, proper deportation and restructuring of drug laws would create a lot of room for vicious thugs and eliminate the revolving door effect.
Those contractors would have to go back to endeavors that don't enrich them through other people's misery. Aaaw.

[FairOpinion]

One of the things I find hypocritical, is that usually the same people who treat smokers as the worst monsters on earth, and want to make smoking illegal, and ban it everywhere, make excuses for those who take drugs, even though drugs are the reason for many crimes, and other social problems.

I am personally ambivalent on legalizing drugs. As long as we could be sure that those who take them will not be in a position to hurt others (such as someone high on something piloting a plane, designing a bridge, driving a car, etc.) I wouldn't care if they burn out their brains. Actually I would care, as in trying to educate them, but my main concern is that if it became legal, and "socially acceptable" we would have a lot more people with fried brains causing serious problems in the society with their actions.

[FairOpinion]

I think the first step in "legalizing drugs" is legalizing NON-hallucinogenic drugs, that the FDA is keeping from people, not allowing people to import perfectly legal and useful drugs, that are prescribed in other countries, because the FDA, in the name of "protecting us" from ourselves, --- regardless of how long they have been prescribed and used successfully in other countries --- prohibits it. Not to mention the extreme standards and lenght of time they have to approve drugs in this country, thereby denying many people potentially useful medicines.

They spend more time worrying about people who may bring in some prescription medication for personal use from Mexico, than people who smuggle in truckloads of marijuana.

[MrLeRoy]

I'm for legalizing pot, but if this really turns out to be true, w/pot being a causative agent in mental illness, I may have to support it for medicinal purposes only.

Alcohol can damage the brain---should we restrict it to medicinal use only?