Pat
2008-03-13 06:01:28
Officer Dunphy, the heroin addict you arrested was wrong. I’m sure he would like to believe that everyone else is as foolish and lacking in self-control as he is — that would relieve him of any personal responsibility for his own bad choices. But the truth is that he chose, of his own free will, to inject heroin into his veins. Most of us would never do that. We are not like him.
The “drug war” is based on the same faulty reasoning that was used to justify Prohibition, and it has failed in exactly the same way, for exactly the same reasons.
