[RobRoy]

>>Yet, I recognize that many drugs have become
root cause issues in types of major crimes.<<

Actually, it's the very fact that they are illegal and expensive that makes them root causes. Kind of like alcohol was during prohibition. And all prohibition got us was organized crime, unlike the drug war. Wait a second...

I should point out that my take on drug use is that it is one of the stupidest things (yes, I do mean STUPID) that a human being can do. But this is SUPPOSED to be a free country so I say let them do it. If they then go out and break some other law, well, that's a separate issue.

I prefer hanging around people who do what I'd to because that's their choice, not because their mom, the government, makes them do it.

[FastCoyote]

I debate this subject often and find most Conservatives do not believe their own absolute anti-drug position. For example, they refuse to turn in their own family members, they smoke and drink when by congruent logic those substances should be banned as well. When confronted with these inconsistencies they will slander me as a libertine, though I neither smoke nor do drugs (not since a couple hits 30 years ago) and my yearly alcohol consumption is 3 glasses of wine and maybe a sixpack worth of Coronas.

What is particularly amusing is that now that tobacco taxes are through the roof, many Conservatives are bying smokes illegally from the indians or across state borders, making them criminal libertines:)