Originally Posted by crockett

People should have free choice, but what about people whom have the result's of that choice placed on them? Think of some family driving down a street and getting killed by a drunk driver. Where is their free choice?

Did you happen to grow up in a alcoholic home? Think the kids have much freedom of choice in that situation? Now think if drugs were legal and it's addicts. Do we really need more kids in this country growing up in that situation than already are?

Now what about work? Do you really want a cop with a gun showing up for work after a night of partying and maybe having a bad hit of acid?

If drugs are legal, how do you stop doctors, cops, teachers from abusing them? At least now they can be tested for it, but not if it's legal. It's simply not the same thing as alcohol, which already causes more than enough problems & it's legal.

Simply put, people that push for legalization do not really look at the big picture because for every problem it may solve it creates another. The question is which is the bigger problem and what new problems will we create.