[sean327]

Ilicit drugs are one of the biggest threats to our society.
They destroy lives, families, and entire communities. You claim the "Drug War" is an invasion of your privacy, I claim your use of drugs is a threat to my children and myself. I have seen first hand the ability of the drug culture to destroy. I have lost friends, some due to their so called recreational use, and some to a dumbass mistake made by someone who was stoned out of their mind at work.

If your drug use affects the saftey of my family and friends, I am not concerned with your misguided interpretation of privacy rights. If you want to use drugs, do it in your own home and don't come out unill you are clean and sober. If you want to destroy yourself have at it, just make sure you leave me and mine out of it.

[A CA Guy]

Do you want an amen to that? AMEN!!!

[marktwain]

Ilicit drugs are one of the biggest threats to our society. They destroy lives, families, and entire communities.

So, since alcohol destroys far more lives, families, and entire communities, you are for re instituting prohibition, right?

I have personally witnessed the drug war as an enforcer, and I can tell you that there is no question that legal drugs destroy much, much, much more than illicit drugs, and that the drug war itself has dome much more damage to our culture, country, and constitution than the use of drugs ever did.

[Beemnseven]

Sean, please -- spare me the "destroying lives" crap. Are you about to call for the illegality of tobacco since that "destroys lives" in far greater numbers?

I doubt it.

Using a substance does not affect you or your family in any way. The threat comes from those who infringe on your rights while intoxicated. Same goes for alcohol, another substance that "destroys lives" -- yet somehow, the government could care less. Are you ready to ban alcohol too? Again, I doubt it.

The drug war itself is what destroys communities. The sooner you and others who think the same way wake up and realize that the so-called War on Drugs is another miserable government failure, the better off our society will be.

[Ramius]

You don't need to fear any legalization of anything, not even Pot, any time soon.

There is too much money in it the way it is, and therefore all will stay the same. The gangs have all the money they could ever want. The cops have all the budget they could ever want, and if they don't get it in the budget they can seize property until they do. The cartels have more money than most medium sized countries, and can buy whoever they need to buy.

With a system like this, nothing will change because nobody wants it to change *especially* those that profit from the drug business.

Cheers.

[jedi]

Hopefully, someday soon an informant will decide he wants some of your assets.

[jedi]

Better teach your family how to lie face-down with their hands behind their backs, too. CWOJackson might be one of them coming through your door.

[Hoof Hearted]

"Ilicit drugs are one of the biggest threats to our society.

Damned straight, brother! Ever try to pick a fight with some stoned pothead? Ain't gonna happen! Why can't them druggies just get sloshed on brew like us law abiding Americans?

[Age of Reason]

Drugs should not only be made legal, but the government should give them for free to anyone who wants them--with one provision:

Such people agree to live in remote drug villages where they can obtain all the free drugs they want.

This way drugs can be used to remove the losers from the communities of sensible people.

And the cost of those drugs to the government--especially once those drugs are legalized--would be miniscule in comparison to what is now being spent on the war on drugs.