[lds23]

You can start by telling me why MTV and Hollywood aggrandizes drug use as glamorous. Because it enslaves and cripples our youth, our promise of tomorrow. It takes away the desire to build up something over years, replacing it with instant gratification. It replaces long-term values with short term ones, which fits into the media's attempt to sell happiness.

[JRadcliffe]

"Because it enslaves and cripples our youth, our promise of tomorrow. It takes away the desire to build up something over years, replacing it with instant gratification. It replaces long-term values with short term ones, which fits into the media's attempt to sell happiness."

I agree with everything you said. I do not buy the idea though that it is OK to arrest people, murder people, steal their property or send them to jail simply because they ingested something that the government doesn't like. As long as these people are peaceful we have no other legitimate and constitutional response, other than to leave them alone.

The government does NOT own us. It has absolutely NO authority to use force in order to control how people treat their own bodies.