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Murder violates the rights of the unwilling victim; drug use's only victim is the willing user, with any rights violations being those motivated by the War on Drugs.

I'll give you that in the War on Drugs, the cure has been proven to be worse than the disease.

On that we agree.

To say that drug use affects no one but the actual user

Not what I said - I said it violates nobody else's rights, which is the only proper object of government force.

Oh, play your word games. Defend the right to commit suicide, but unless one plans to combust spontaneously, someone has to clean up the residue.

Residue comes in all forms. If Ozzy Osbourne weren't rich, for example, my tax dollars would be providing care. My tax dollars go to clean up meth labs, and pays for the care of crack babies. If I have to pay for cleanup, it's not a victimless 'crime.' If I have to pay for any part of it, then it's my business.

As I've said before, the War on Drugs has proven to be a failure. On the flip side, there's no problem we face that gets better with increased drug use. So it's no win, and I get to follow behind the party metaphorically speaking with a scoop shovel.

It doesn't matter what I think anyway because we're headed there. Fifty years from now it will be viewed as a foolish experiment. But, that's not your problem, right?

"Don't harsh my mellow, dude!!!"