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This country can NOT legalize drugs until the people are ready to accept seeing bodies laying in the streets. Drug addiction leads to death. Slow, lingering, horrible death. We cannot support drug addicts who only know that they can hardly wait for their next fix. They do not, can not, and will not work to support their habits.

Now you can argue that not all fit the category and that would be true, but the numbers are such that mere subsidation would bankrupt the society. I have seen the results of casual drug addiction with the knowledge that it is illegal and the force of addiction is so strong that continued use is almost assured.

Easy access to drugs would create a new class of addicts. Those that said, "well, now that it is legal, I will try it and, of course, I can quit anytime I want."

WRONG

These fools would jump to the hard core in no time and we would have a new crop of junkies to support. And so it goes.

The results of easy access to drugs is overdoses. Overdoses result in bodies laying in the streets. Now, you may argue that we could set up government stands (for lack of a better term) for supply to ensure that no one would get OD'ed.

Sorry, but it wouldn't work. The user, with his ever increasing need for 'the high' would only go to other government stands for a, yet stronger, fix! And so it goes.

Are you ready to wake up to the vision of a junkie, lying dead on your lawn and your 6 year old staring at the site? That, my friends, is the result of easy access hits!

Easy access to drugs = Janis Joplin, Easy access to drugs = John Belushi, Easy access to drugs = Kurt Cobain. Easy access to drugs = Jim Morrison.

And so it goes!

I just think of it as evolution in action.

accept seeing bodies laying in the streets

Yeah, that's it everyone would be addicts. Your statement has no proof,
to back it up. But I have seen comparisons on this forum that totaly blow away everyone of your assumptions.
Intial use might go up, but then level off.
As far as some rich hollywood personality ODing, before it was drugs it was alcohol.
Every town has an Otis the town drunk, by your theory everyone town should have 100's of town drunks.
It just wouldn't happen.

easy access to gubment-produced-propo-spewage=lawdude

Look at the numbers. 600 thousand die from alchohol and tobbacco each year. 10 thousand die from the most heinous drug available, heroin, every year. Do we have dead nicotine addicts in the streets? Do we have dead alchoholics in the streets? Well, not in my town we don't either.

And just to help you out I'll let you in on a little secret. All those celebs you named....got their drugs regardless of the WOD. That's right!!!! The WOD did nothing to save them from themselves!!! Oh the humanity. How come we didn't try harder to make sure that they were safe? Why, Oh why, didn't we do something to keep them from exercising their free will?

EBUCK

seeing bodies laying in the streets.

The only reason we don't see that very much now is DEA and BATF etc police up the bodies they lay in the streets fairly quickly. Then they burn and buldoze the sites to quickly clean up the unsightly results of their work.

Drug addiction leads to death. Slow, lingering, horrible death.

Which drug do you have in mind?