Reply #25: Actually, the jails in this country are full of non-violent drug offenders. [View All]

[Warren DeMontague]

We spend $40 Billion a year on a "drug war" aimed primarily at not crack, but pot. We'd do far better if we legalized and taxed marijuana, and treated hard drugs as a health issue and not a law enforcement one. When people commit other crimes- like robbing or killing or (allegedly) "selling their babies" then they are criminals and should be treated as such. But right now we let violent criminals OUT of prison to make room for mandatory minimum non violent sentenced drug offenders. And the fact that drugs are illegal directly causes the violence associated with "the drug trade" just as alcohol prohibition was responsible for Al Capone.

As for church automatically being "better"- that's debatable. I spent a lot of time in my youth traveling around with the Grateful Dead, and many of the people I grew up with at those shows- on drugs or off- were and are far better fucking individuals than the glassy-eyed fundy assholes who voted for Bush, hate gays and think women who take the birth control pill should go to prison.

The bottom line? As with everything, what a consenting adult does with his or her own body and life should be HIS OR HER OWN BUSINESS, as long as they aren't harming or endangering anyone else. That goes for people who do drugs, that goes for people who drink alcohol, that goes for people who want to go to church, that goes for people who want to watch or be paid to appear in consenting adult porn.

If Crissy Moran found Jesus and gave up her $14K a month porn gig and is happy about it, good for her- but it's a pretentious value judgment (and this is my opinion, just as that is yours) to make a blanket statement that it's "better" for anyone and everyone to be a proseltyzing fundy than a porn star. Or that this world needs "more church and less drugs". Some fundies are happy, being a fundy works for them. Some porn stars are happy, being a porn star works for them. Some recreational drug users- and I would include alcohol as one of those recreational drugs- are happy, that works for them. Some clean and sober people -I'm one of them- are happy.

Personally, I think whatever works for people is their choice- as long as they're consenting adults and they aren't harming or endangering anyone else- and no one else's.