Re: Off Topic: The Insane War on Drugs

[Margaret Tarbet <tarbet@swaa.com>]

Nick wrote, responding to Greg's quoted post

>>Just legalize drugs and be done with it.
>
>Sure - and sell them at Toys 'R' Us.  After all, all those kids can make
>educated decisions at age 5, can't they?

Does it necessarily follow that legalisation means openly supplying
to kids?    I shouldn't think so.


>>Let people be responsible for themselves. Let parents be 
>>responsible for their children. Most of them are.
>
>Boy - do you have a Polyannish outlook of society and the family unit. 
>I'm sure all those single-parent children have the best of upbringing -
>between the two shifts their parent has to work to make ends meet.  And,
>of course, the utopian world you protray would NEVER have a stressed out
>parent who does drugs and, thereby, neglects their children, now would
>it?

The problem, though, is that the ones who would be stressed out and
neglect their kids if all drugs were legal are not  in good shape
today either.  Plus  they have a financial problem today, on top of
everything else.

The Drug Warriors [tm] love the 'post hoc ergo propter hoc' shell
game, but it's nonsense all the same.    Roosters crow when the sun
comes up, but they don't cause it.