[Dane]

Hmm, Rudolph Guiliani got the pot smokers and crackheads off the streets and crime plummeted in New York City.

Of course Mr. Chapman left that out.

[Uncle Fud]

The reason there has been so much concentration on drug cases is obvious - terrorism and violent crimes don't offer one-tenth the opportunity for asset seizures and bribery.

[VA Advogado]

For the last two decades, our leaders have treated the enforcement of drug laws as the moral equivalent of war. On Sept. 11, it became blindingly clear that there really is no moral equivalent of war.

War, we were reminded, is when foreign enemies are trying to kill as many of us as they can. Cokeheads and dope smokers, whatever their shortcomings, don't have that mission. The Al Qaeda terrorists do.

Both are a thread to our way of live and need to be eliminated.

Police Officer Loses Eye To Crack-Addled Gunman

[packrat01]

I, and many people who think as I do; would be willing to decriminalize person possession and use. IF,

IF

the druggies would concede that DUI, DWI, and sale to minors (under 21) could be penalized as attempted manslaughter and allow for no Medicare/Medicaide coverage of drug related illness. You wanna fry your brains; go ahead. Don't get us to pay for it, your future health problems, or get our kids hooked on drugs.

You'd never get a Kennedy to vote for it as long as DWI was included...

[A CA Guy]

I don't even have to read all the threads to guess they are mostly normal folks against ADDICTS & addict supporters who want to justify use in the name of some misguided view of liberty!

Warped!

[lodwick]

bttt

[Cold Heat]

Allowing the medical use of MJ and the blatent violations of federal drug laws,(as in the case of these clubs) are two distinct issues. Ashcroft is only enforcing the law as it exists today.