Reply #50: Like, for example, the wine in your avatar? [View All]

[Warren DeMontague]

Alcohol can be extremely devastating, and for the percentage of the population that has a propensity towards alcoholism, it is EXTREMELY addicting. (Actually, if you drink a fifth of jack daniels every day for a year, and then try to stop, you, too will find that it is very addictive) But prohibition doesn't work. It didn't work with alcohol and it doesn't work with drugs.

The question isn't just "which drugs are dangerous, and to whom", it's also "what do we do about that?".. Specifically, do we turn drug users into criminals and blow 20 billion a year on a "drug war" aimed mostly at pot? Or do we plow some of that money into REAL education (because the best advertisement against, say, meth is meth users themselves..... however, no teenager is going to buy ANYTHING the government has to say about drugs once they've been told that smoking a joint will get them date-raped or cause their testicles to shrivel up and fall off) and treatment, and then at the end of the day accept that consenting adults are going to make their own decisions about their own bodies... and live with that, even if they are sometimes bad or dumb ones?