spidergoat said:That is exactly why they should not be illegal. Most of the bad things about addiction are the result of their prohibition. Make them available to those that can prove they are addicts, at the same time get them into treatment programs. Invest in the research to find new treatments, and give them clean needles to prevent HIV.
So then when people become addicted and are psychotic, dilusional and mentally unbalanced who is going to care for them? Who is going to pay the doctors, lawyers and police to see to it those that are addicted don't become problems to everyone else. As you well know crack makes people rather irritable and baligerant as well as downers or barbituates. Speed makes people rater unpredictable and lose control of their ability to eat or hold down a job as well as other mental problems. So if we do allow drugs to become legal who do you say are going to help all of those more people that become addicted and still can't afford the drugs.
Do you really think drugs are going to be that cheap? When corporations get their hands on adictive drugs I can just imagine the costs spiriling upward every so often.