[aculeus]

I didn't imagine there were FReepers who would use this grotesque case to actually argue for legalization.

You're kidding, right? :-D

I wish. I should have remembered the case of the late Carroll (forgetting his full name) the actor who played Archie Bunker. He lost his son to an overdose and shortly afterward the genuinely grief-striken man was on television saying his son would not have died if heroin was legalized! Absolutely batty!

[Stone Mountain]

I wish. I should have remembered the case of the late Carroll (forgetting his full name) the actor who played Archie Bunker. He lost his son to an overdose and shortly afterward the genuinely grief-striken man was on television saying his son would not have died if heroin was legalized! Absolutely batty!

The way I remember it was that Carroll O'Connor held his son virtually blameless in his own death, but blamed the guy who sold his son the drugs and tried (unsucessfully) to get him tried for murder. I'd have a lot more respect for the guy if he had acknowledged his own son's responsibility in what happened to him.