[ATLian]

Your argument depends on whether alcohol addiction and heroine addiction have the same consequences on your body. With regards to alcohol, moderation is possible, but is moderation possible with heroine?

This is the part I don't get. Why do you want society to regulate what you can do with your body? If you want to lick toads and get high and do so in the privacy of your home where no-one will get harmed, why should the government stop you? If you want to bungee jump or sky dive or race NASCAR cars at 190 MPH, why should the government stop you? Why do you think that they have a right to your body when you are harming nobody but yourself? And if they can police your body and stop you from doing drugs coz they harm you, why shouldn't they be allowed to police other things you can do to your body e.g. how much fat you can eat, how many cigarettes you can smoke, etc.

If they were so serious on this war on drugs, why are cigarettes legal? Read this quote - Tobacco products are responsible for more than 400,000 deaths annually due to cancer, respiratory illness, heart disease, and other health problems. Cigarettes kill more Americans each year than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, illegal drugs, and fires combined. Smokers who die as a result of smoking would have lived, on average, 12 to 15 years longer if they had not smoked. Instead of spending gabzillions chasing drug peddlers, why not spend it on cigarretes?

Please give me a good reason why cigarretes aren't illegal? Booze also causes untold suffering to many, why is it legal? Why do you think it's OK for you to be able to sit in your house and consume a 12 pack, a bottle of whisky and 2 packs of cigarettes a day for the next 15 months, but you should go to jail for 5 years if you had more than an ounce of crack cocaine?



Again, Atlian, it isn't an automatic process, its about weighing out pros and cons in certain situations, otherwise morphine wouldn't be used in hospitals.

Again, if you could get access to morphine, why shouldn't you be allowed to use it recreationally or to heal yourself. Do you know that if you were in serious pain, and you got hold of some morphine bila prescription, and you injected yourself and cured the pain, you'd be liable to 15 years in jail if busted? How does that make sense?