[grania]

Incidentally, you are aware it's far easier for kids to get illegal drugs than alcohol? Do you realize that's because alcohol is legal and controlled?

I'm aware of that. Also, in Massachusetts, with its Nazi-oriented Health Boards, its easier to get illegal drugs in the parking lots of convenience stores than it is to get cigarettes inside.

I've always had the suspicion that drugs are subtlely allowed as a way to keep kids from getting involved in real issues like demanding a better education and learning something and developing a future that breaks society's distinctions. And, for those who demand more, they're declared ADD and given Ritalin. We've become a society that doesn't really look for change, just satisfaction and pleasure.

Anyway if drugs were legal their strength would be controlled, they'd be taxed unbelievably, and a lot of bad guys would need different sources of revenue. Yeah, I know all of that. And I think I understand the issues. I just don't like what drugs do to the human spirit.

[FreedomIsSimple]

I just don't like what drugs do to the human spirit

As a staunch proponent of legalization, let me say I understand what you're saying. Yes, drugs are bad, yes they destroy the lives of individuals. But, please understand, prohibition DOESN'T WORK. We will NEVER rid our society of drugs, we can't keep them out of prisons for heaven's sake. The War is a waste of money and actually makes the drug problem much, much worse - all it does is increase cartel profits expodentially. These profits fund terrorists and corrupt our government. Drug dealers killing themselves and others in the streets, cartels buying off law enforcement or killing their opponents, ALL OF THIS stops with legalization.

[jeffyraven]

Whatever drugs do or don't do to the human spirit is not mitigated by prohibition, nor would it be enhanced by legalization.