[10thAmendmentGuy]

Please tell me you're kidding. You think that the War on Drugs has been a failure because we haven't fought it hard enough? We arrest almost a million people a year for either possessing or dealing marijuana (mostly for possession). How many do you want them to arrest? 3 million? 4 million?

No, I see that you want to purposefully POISON drug users. DRUG USERS. I can't say I morally object to the idea of making a heroin DEALER eat their heroin, but the idea of having the government purposefully poison drug users is about as anti-American an ideal as you get. You know why alcohol was poisoned during prohibition, don't you? Bootleggers wanted to increase their already sky-high profits, so they diluted the product. This caused people to die. We see the same thing today, with heroin dealers lacing their product to save money.

You don't seriously want our government acting more like drug dealers, do you? You want to shoot drug dealers. In other words, you think that drug dealing is more serious than rape, because even rapists don't get executed (because our stupid Supreme Court said that was too harsh). I gotta assume that your post is a joke.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Actually the government did poison alcohol. Methanol (wood alcohol) contains several poisonous substances that make it unfit for human consumption. It is also useful in a number of industries and was thus easily obtainable even during prohibition. Eventually, some enterprising bootleggers discovered how to remove enough of the poisons to allow humans to drink it. The government response was to mandate that more poisons be put into methanol.

[kiryandil]

but the idea of having the government purposefully poison drug users is about as anti-American an ideal as you get.

Ummmmmm - hate to break the news to you, but the government DOES purposefully poison drug users. Go look up some common pharma drugs that can be abused.

[Venturer]

It sure stirred the crap didn’t it?