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I live in Canada where our government is a little different than yours on the drug issue. We seem to be much more leinient on the marijuana than south of the 49th parallel. When I was much younger I used my fair share of it (probably more than enough anyway). I did try other drugs because the kick I got from smoking dope was not enough. Thank God that I decided that I really didn't want to do that. I have enough friends who did move on and then become total basket cases (one of which killed his father) that I feel that we need to keep drugs - alcohol included- out of the hands certainly of children. The cost of drug addiction in our countries is enormous. The crime that is perpetrated so that those who are addicted can feed their habit costs our societies financially, physically (injuries, deaths etc), phsycologically, so on and so on is incalculable. I don't even drink anymore because I'm not really sure where the line between use of alcohol meets abuse. I guess in a perfect world we would not feel the need to alter our perception of reality. We would not feel the need to chemically alter the way our brains work. People have been doing it since forever so if we think that we are going to put a stop to it any time soon we're kidding ourselves. I would like to point out however that (certainly in Canada anyway) that if drugs were people with handguns you can rest assured that the government would put a stop to in the blink of an eye. Or maybe even look at it this way- how many kids got killed in cars with airbags before the government changed the rules (the passenger side air bags can now be turned off) and the child protection people said that you need to put your kids in the back seat so that the air bag does not harm them. It is all about priorities and awareness.
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