There is also a difference between people who slam airliners into office buildings and people who smoke joints. Getting all uptight against the dubious threat of drugs is the problem. Putting pot smokers into jail is absurd.
The most important figure in any health matter is mortality. How many people die in the USA each year from drug abuse, discounting alcohol and tobacco? Not very many.
Next, there is morbidity. How much are drug users incapacitated? How long does this last. What is the economic cost? How do these compare with the costs from alcohol and tobacco?
I think that the unreasonable fear of drugs is at the heart of the problem. Also, the absurd idea that drugs can somehow be removed from the market place is an utter delusion. Prohibition only INCREASES drug use.
Alcohol use went UP during the period of the Prohibition Amendment, and went down afterward. That should mean something, and it does.
David F Mayer
Current Events » in reply to Yet you have no problem with predators firing missiles at people in Pakistan.
There is a difference between war and civilian law.
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- Legalizing Marijuana More Popular Than Republicans
- Drug Prohibition Is an Unmitigated Disaster.
- It's really a devastating drug in many ways.
- It has its dangers. People must learn to avoid such drugs.
- " the most dangerous drug out there".
- re: It's really a devastating drug in many ways.
- Yes, Republicanism has been a devastating addiction since 1980, and we're just recovering now (n/t)
- re: It's really a devastating drug in many ways.
- re: It's really a devastating drug in many ways.
- Maybe Michael Phelps will be back on the Kellogs box soon (n/t)
- Guess the country really has gone to pot.