[ruger22com]

The two top gateway drugs (accroding the the governments own research) are alcohol and tobacco.

Marijuana only leads to harder drugs at all because it is sold in an illegal environment where other drugs are also sold. If legal and out of the criminal environment it leads to nothing else illegal

If you look at holland, spain, and other countries that have legalized marijuana you will see almost no related hard drug use, and also almost no use by teens.

We don't have a drug problem in this country, we have a drug law problem. Legalize it and controll it (even hard drugs as they do in england where heroin can be prescribed) and you eliminate the profit, thus you eliminate the violence and organized crime. no more gangs, no more bloody streets, no more drug related robberies. Did we not learn anything from alcohol prohibition? (which is a much more dangerous drug in all ways).

By the way, I don't use drugs except for the occasional wine cooler.

[BattleRifleG3]

I agree that the illegality of drugs is what has caused drug crime. How many people pay a few cents for a chemical that just kills their brain?

I would say though that Alchohol is in a completely different class than the others. I'd hesitate to call it a drug, though in the medical field, giving oxygen is a drug.

[Shaun]

We all hit drugs every morning its called caffiene but it rarely if at all alters your state to the point that you become dangerous to others

[Oxford]

So drugs are ok? Drug usage in Amsterdam is totally open, as was indicated above. I've seen them firsthand frolicking along the canals at their "coffee shops." I'm not in favor of allowing these drugheads to have legal authorities endorse their stupidity.

Look at the ragheads in Afghanistan and Iraq and some other places who get so high on opium and other mind altering drugs that they have no mental or physical resistance to assassins like Hussain.

Along that same line of thought, I wonder how many drugheads in the U.S. think clearly enough to even exercise their right to vote?

[BattleRifleG3]

Very true, Ox. In fact, it's been documented that Al Queda uses mind control drugs on their people.

[Stopper]

Well, I'd rather get a ride home from someone who is stoned thn from someone who is drunk. 1000 times out of 1000. Nothing about controlling drugs in the constitution, just another illegal war. If you prohibit it, a black market will develpoe and crime will follow. Happens with dang near everything the gummit prohibits. You think they would learn.

Some Marijuana Users of Note from Rev. Timothy's list.

Bill Clinton

Benjamin Franklin

Newt Gingrich

Al Gore

Tomas Jefferson

Steve Jobs

Willi Nelson

Clarence Thomas

George Washington

I don't think you can say that these people lived anything less than full and successful lives. I don't think marijuana hurt their lives very much.

I agree with what was said earlier, most of the drug related problems in this country would be solved if drugs, especially soft drugs like marijuana, were legalised and regulated.

Alcohol destroys many lives, but the failure of the prohibition proved that prohibition does not work, it only compounds the suffering.

Did you know that when I was in high school it was easier for me to get marijuana than alcohol? About the only way for me to get booze was to steal my parents', but they always caught me. Pot dealers, on the other hand, were kids I went to school with, and they didn't check for ID.

If drugs were not widely available, you could say that the prohibition works, but the fact of the matter is that in spite of the billions of tax dollars we have spent on the drug war, drugs are as easy to get as they ever were. We are throwing away astronomical amounts of money, lives and liberties in this futile war that we cannot win.

[Oxford]

I'd prefer to not ride home with anyone either...stoned or drunk. Might not get there.