I find it impossible to believe that a civilization that stones cigarette smokers while advocating hard drug use can morally support decisions involved in deciding which drugs are legal, to what age groups, and how we deal with the ramifications. And, having dealt with illegal drug abusers in my family, I also know it’s unrealistic to simply legalize all addictive drugs. We look to the FDA to tell us which foods have no health value, so who’s going to determine which drugs have value or not? Pot abuse is not benign, as all counter-culture supporters would have everyone believe. We are in the process of outlawing nicotine, so what would be the logic in legalizing pot? Don’t give me the crap that it’s not addictive, I deal with a family member now wasting his life away because he’s perfectly content to surivive during the day and get stoned at night. So, all of these “illegal” drugs the LA Times and others want to legalize have the same, or in most cases profoundly more addictive substances than the cigarettes the LA TImes and others are damning at the same time. So, who decides which drugs are legal and which are not? IF we just give up the war on drugs, who’s going to deal with the addicts and the crimes they commit? I’m not going to, I want all dealers in prison. So, who’s it gonna be? Don’t just tell me to live and let live, because addicts don’t live that way. They inflict their addictions into others’ lives by committing crimes against those that choose not to live a life clouded by drugs. I see so much bad, and so many lives destroyed by drugs, and the only reason I see to legalize them is the credo “we can’t win”.
Pathetic.
I personally fight a war on drugs every single day by trying to keep the child I’m responsible for on a track to a happy, fulfilling life. I do that a lot by pointing out how unfulfilling life can be for an addict. In this case, it’s her brother who she adores. He’s a dishwasher now. And, probably always will be. He could have gone to college, he could be making music, he could be doing a lot of things. But, he’d prefer to smoke a joint at the end of the day and just forget he ever had those options.
That’s what you all who want to surrender are offering teh next generation.
Quite frankly, I’d prefer their worst habit be smoking cigarettes.
