Legalizing drugs.

[Artemis]

It amazes me that Alcohol is responsible more deaths than heroin yet people still think its an amazing, harmless, family drug. I think Most people wouldn't even call it a drug.

Alcohol is a legalised government regulated and TAXED drug, it is therefore acceptable to the government, while trying to get your average street corner speedfreak to cough up some of his hard earned dough before he smokes it, is not exactly a reliable revenue stream.

Then of course there is the secondary income to the government from all the D.U.I. fines as well as the tertiary income from the scrap metal prices (forever spiralling upward) from the cars they get to crush.

[Barbarossa]

I wonder how the tax alcohol generates compares to the taxpayers money that is spent in hospitals dealing with alcohol related illnesses and injuries...

[Squeamous]

To be fair obesity costs health services far more. Yup, that's right, food is more dangerous than crack.

[OlegL]

All drugs should be legalized and people who are in prison for drug dealing should be freed unless they committed other more serious crimes. As far as I know, fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes enjoyed smoking opium or taking cocaine. Yes, he's just a fictional character, but reality and fiction often go hand in hand. So many murders would have been prevented if the U.S. government had legalized all drugs. Drugs are not evil; they help a human being.

[Barbarossa]

All drugs should be legalized and people who are in prison for drug dealing should be freed unless they committed other more serious crimes. As far as I know, fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes enjoyed smoking opium or taking cocaine. Yes, he's just a fictional character, but reality and fiction often go hand in hand. So many murders would have been prevented if the U.S. government had legalized all drugs. Drugs are not evil; they help a human being.

[Squeamous]

Suddenly I feel the urge for some drugs. Are many of your friends and relatives on crack Oleg?

[OlegL]

No, the people I am acquainted with smoke weed. I don't know anyone who's on crack.

[megabyteme]

All drugs should be legalized and people who are in prison for drug dealing should be freed unless they committed other more serious crimes. As far as I know, fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes enjoyed smoking opium or taking cocaine. Yes, he's just a fictional character, but reality and fiction often go hand in hand. So many murders would have been prevented if the U.S. government had legalized all drugs. Drugs are not evil; they help a human being.

By themselves, each of these words is harmless. However, in this exact combination you have assembled them, each of us is now irrevocably dumber for having read them. How do you manage such a feat, Oleg?

[OlegL]

All drugs should be legalized and people who are in prison for drug dealing should be freed unless they committed other more serious crimes. As far as I know, fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes enjoyed smoking opium or taking cocaine. Yes, he's just a fictional character, but reality and fiction often go hand in hand. So many murders would have been prevented if the U.S. government had legalized all drugs. Drugs are not evil; they help a human being.

By themselves, each of these words is harmless. However, in this exact combination you have assembled them, each of us is now irrevocably dumber for having read them. How do you manage such a feat, Oleg?

You know, sometimes I wish I had lived in the 1950s, 1960s, or 1970s when people were less prejudiced against drugs. Remember that author of the book "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"? Wasn't he high in the 1950s or 60s? Remember other talented folks such as Burroughs or Alan Ginsburg (my fellow Jew, by the way)? Don't you sometimes wish you had seen them taking drugs?... But, oh horror! - Ronald Reagan came to power in the 80s and he made people more prejudiced against drugs. I don't think I said anything dumb. I believe that if all drugs were legalized, there would be less drug-related murders. If people were less prejudiced against drugs, we would have less problems.

[IdolEyes787]

People were more prejudice against drugs in 1950s, 1960s. Drugs being then part of the "counterculture" and seen as an act of rebellion .Someplace around 1970-1980 they became tied to the club scene and casual sex. Now suburban soccer Moms do drugs as they are just another quick and easy way of making the World go away.