[Antoninus]

I ask you an honest question and you give me an insult for an answer. You’ve identified yourself for what you are. Clearly, most people are better human beings than you are.

You'll notice in my response that I wasn't addressing you personally--but the point of view that says that legalizing drugs is a good idea. It's not and that point of view is based on pure ignorance and lack of foresight. If you find that comment to be a personal affront, I would advise you to be less sensitive. If you can't take the heat, don't post your opinion.

[muir_redwoods]

I can take heat, I'm just a bit choosy about whose ignorant opinion I opt to endure.

Perhaps you'd like to enumerate the many advantages achieved during the multi-billion, multi-decade "war-on-some-drugs" that has destroyed the nations of Mexico and Colombia, corrupted our police forces, given rise to the paramilitary character of law enforcement in our nation and has proceeded without any constitutional basis since the days of Nixon at least.

It would be better if humans used no recreational chemicals at all. I wish all people would make that choice. My only drug of choice is black coffee. I choose sanity over insanity whether chemically assisted or not. I am unwilling to continue to finance further futile attempts to protect fools from their folly; it's on them to be better people. That is a classical conservative position

The War-on-some-drugs is insanity. It has produced no measurable advantages unless you see the world through a fascist perspective and applaud the growth of government power, the destruction of the 4th amendment, and bankrolling of multi-national organized crime.