I am against SOME drugs. Damned right. Any opportunity for retirement went out the window over a child's use of meth. She knew better, she wasn't raised in a Liberal household where anything goes, but she made the wrong choices anyway. Now, we're raising another generation of children (whom I dearly love, but that is beside the point).
Until you have been slapped by the dysfunction, pain, and expense of another person's addiction, without so much as catching a little 'buzz' yourself, you don't know the meaning of screwed.
It's all just fun, right?
It's your body and you can do what you want with it, right?
Doesn't affect anyone else, right?
Unless you are a rich orphan, wrong.
Look, I like antibiotics, but the use of those is largely controlled, unless you are taking the ones for your pet.
I don't particularly see people looking to loot my possessions or rob me or my wife to get their next penicillin fix.
Not too many people out there running tetracycline houses.
No street gangs fighting over turf to sell cipro.
No one engaging in prostitution to get that levaquin high.
But there are a few drugs which have the distinct honor of being tied to extensive social problems, to increased crime, wrecked homes and lives, and which do more damage to our culture, society, economy, and nation than can possibly be outweighed by someone's need for a buzz.
So yes, I am against some drugs.
“So yes, I am against some drugs.”
Good answer. Darn good answer. I’m just going to file that away for future reference.
Do you see any gangland murders and territorial wars over the distribution of alcohol? Oh, that's right: Prohibition was recognized to be a failed experiment, and summarily revoked. And if tobacco were suddenly declared a Schedule I narcotic, you can bet that a lively trade in illegal cigarettes would soon be claiming hundreds of lives per year.
[...] drugs which have the distinct honor of being tied [...] Yes, those drugs tied to extensive social problems are the ones which have been arbitrarily made illegal, making a) it profitable for organized crime to get involved; b) raising prices; c) thus "forcing" users into criminality to fund their addiction; d) thus justifying a "war on (some) drugs;" etc.
Regards,