[cinFLA]

I fear our descendents will one-day stare at us with blank incomprehension when we explain that we traded a free society for a police state for such an inconsequential threat as illegal drugs.

You must be smoking something to think that illegal drugs is an inconsequential threat. This is the policy that was used in NYC to help clean up that city during the past few years. If a druggie so much as spits on the sidewalk, arrest him!

[samtheman]

This is the policy that was used in NYC to help clean up that city during the past few years. If a druggie so much as spits on the sidewalk, arrest him!

It did work. Cracking down on the small crimes decreased the big crimes... immensely.