So what state in a year would you and ALL your family be in if you used illegal drugs? Would everything be normal or would addictions cause problems? In this example, you were innocent before you got addicted, right? How innocent are you as you need to sponge on the extended family around you and on the monies in the social kitty to help you in rehab? Money better spent to cure cancer or fight terrorism with!
Bad enough law enforcement has to use fund due to the weak minded. I can only immagine the giant social and economic cost surrounding illegal drug use.
We had economist articles about legalizing drugs on FR. They pointed out that addicts would greatly grow and their problems would cost society's piggy bank quite a bit to deal with.
Best solution? Be an adult with adult-like responsibility and DON'T EVER START TO USE ILLEGAL DRUGS.
You can't deal justly with individuals by making generalizations. If they attempt to violate someone's rights, or endanger others by their severe public intoxication, then lock em up.
So what state in a year would you and ALL your family be in if you used illegal drugs?
This question, while no doubt hysterically dramatic, is completely irrelevant to the matter at hand. The government is not my parent, and it's none of the government's business what I or anyone else does on their private property, unless a violation of rights occurs. It is not within the Constitutional scope of the federal government to prohibit its citizens from possessing inanimate objects, because of what might happen if someone were so stupid as to misuse them.