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i appreciate your thoughts.

I don't deny that there are people who are curious and would try drugs. I just think the efforts and money fighting the drugs on war is just another wasted venture by the government to make people feel good while obtaining no valid results.

As I written that I never had the need for drugs --though vicodin works wonders if you can't sleep as I found out when I was in the hospital for hernia and another surgery--- I did have a very unique anti drug message in my earlier years coming from a place many on here would never guess. it was from the music/lyrics of straight edge hardcore punk bands.

To sum up my thoughts in general, I don't want the government interfering with how citizens behave until their behavior destructively interrupts my life. "Your rights end where mine begin." In the same, but opposite respect, I don't believe the government should encourage or subsidize dependent behavior on ANYTHING whether it be welfare or drugs.

As for the "War on Drugs?" To be effective, we would have to raid several countries if we wanted to curb the drug problem in the US. It would be far easier than curbing terrorism. Since Drugs are about supply and demand and personal choice, we can hardly justify our invading south America to kill and destroy drug cartels. Terrorism on the other hand is the imposition of violence on innocents. It is a cause more worthy. I don't believe the answer to curbing illicit use of narcotics is to give up and make it legal. It is a cop-out.