Drugs support an underworld of evil and hopelessness and ending the "drug war" will only allow more victims to be dragged into the pit.
Pretending drug-use is a matter of "personal responsibility" is the same as pretending abortion is "choice".
“If the right to take drugs was mentioned in the Constitution”
Adn the right of the fed gvt to decide for me is mentioned where?
Hey, old-timer. Is it your position that any right we have must be listed in the constitution? Last time I looked, the constitution was intended to limit the power of government not to list all of our human rights.
Try it that way.
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You have lots of rights not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. In fact the Framers were so concerned about this point being spelled out so no one could make any mistakes about it they included this:
Amendment the Ninth: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
There's no explicit Constitutional right to drink alcohol. But when we banned that the 22nd Amendment had to be ratified and the Volkstead Act passed.
Drugs support an underworld of evil and hopelessness and ending the "drug war" will only allow more victims to be dragged into the pit.
Which is exactly what happened after Prohibition ended. We're now a nation awash in hopeless alcoholics dying on every streetcorner.
Oh, that never happened? Sorry.
Have a good day.
Drugs do not support the underworld of evil, etc.
ILLEGAL drugs do. The problem with illegal drugs (notwithstanding the other poster obsessed with PCP and heads-through-windshields) is the illegal market.
Frankly who cares if someone snorts something? It's their problem.
With respect to the heads-through-windshields argument, I'm far more concerned with people texting and driving.