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Drug Use doesn't destroy society? Your kidding, right?

Does alcohol use destroy society? Did Prohibition work? If we'd end the War on Drugs we'd save a lot of time, money, (not to mention we'd stop violating an individual's right to do with his/her bodies as he pleases). Drug use is not harmful. Drug abuse is. I know plenty of people who smoke weed occasionally and they're better off than my friends who get smashed on alcohol every weekend.

I know plenty of people who smoke weed occasionally and they're better off than my friends who get smashed on alcohol every weekend

AGREE!!!!

Does alcohol use destroy society? Did Prohibition work? If we'd end the War on Drugs we'd save a lot of time, money, (not to mention we'd stop violating an individual's right to do with his/her bodies as he pleases). Drug use is not harmful. Drug abuse is. I know plenty of people who smoke weed occasionally and they're better off than my friends who get smashed on alcohol every weekend.

Not everyone who is against the Drug War is in opposition due to some favoring of drugs. Drug use IS harmful. Even marijuana use is harmful in small ways. The real question is, does the War on Drugs do more harm than the drug use. I would say yes, it does immense damage to the Constitution. It gives the government the doorway to seize property without a trial or even charges to be filed. When they are letting violent criminals out of jail to make room for drug users we have a priority problem also.

My Gov. (Mike Huckabee) is a conservative Republican and has no use for drug use whatsoever. But he has the sense to see that the War on Drugs is damaging in its own right and that maybe its time to look at other solutions.

I could respond if you'd state your position more succintly. But, here goes anyway. You say that drug use is not harmful. You've obviously never seen a family destroyed by heroin or cocaine or crack or prolonged use of marajuana. Of the millions in prison today the overwhelming majority of them are there because of drug involvement of some kind. On average, it costs 40k a year for these " good citizens." You parse your argument by making a difference between drug use and drug abuse. So what your saying is one can use heroin or crack without abusing it? Millions of people in this country use alcohol responsibly every day. I dont know of anyone who responsibly uses heroin, cocaine, crack or methamphetamine. Your argument is full of shit and so are you.