Reply #155: Either that or people could switch to...

[ellisonz]

chewing coca leaves and smoking opium. Both of which are traditional forms of ingestion, practiced for thousands of years. In my personal experience, I've seen meth drive family members and friends to the brink of insanity and have had friends die from heroin overdoses. You will not convince me that society does not have a role in attempting to regulate and reduce the harm of such substances. I have no objection if they want to sit around and do coke, smoke hash blunts and opium hookah. :toast:

The fact is that currently marijuana smuggling underwrites the transporting of cocaine, poppy fields, and meth production. I think that if you take away that cash cow then the black market will not be able to sustain itself. The street cost of a gram of either substance would go through the roof. Also crack is whack. I'm for legalization, but there has to be some sense to it otherwise society would not tolerate even a step in the right direction. :hurts:

I'm a liberal; not a libertarian.