Legalizing drugs? A real bummer. Do you know how many children are born each day whose mothers were on drugs , that are hopelessly brain challenged or ADHD victims? How many people, of those on the streets, are there because they are brain dead from drugs? What single thing can you say is good from the result of illegal drug use? Would the number be larger if drugs were legalized? Alcohol is a bummer, why do you need another one? How many people are in jail for crimes directly related to drug use/need/sales? If you let all those addicts have all the drugs they could eat/smoke,snort,shoot-up or otherwise consume, do you think that they would suddenly go to work to earn money to buy them? Even if you gave them all the drugs that they wanted, would they suddenly become upstanding parents, students, workers, citizens etc.
Do you think a society of drug addicts would be an admirable one?
I wish that I knew the answer to the drug problem in the United States. There's too much money involved to stop it entirely from the top. The solutions are too severe to stop it entirely from the bottom--but history tells us that it can be done.
History also tells that a free drug society is bad news. We'd better keep our finger in the dyke.
