3) Are people more likely to be killed by someone sober or by someone who has been using drugs or alcohol?
When are we going to wake up and realize that people want to get high? From the mild stimulus of caffeine, the outwardly innocuousness of nicotine and the destructiveness of alcohol. From legal stimulants and depressants to illegal hallucinogens, it seems like its human nature to want to alter ones mood. Not everyone of course, but what percent of the population do you think does none of the above?
So the war on drugs is an attempt to stamp out human inclination by force. Why don't we spend the huge amounts of money we now waste trying to fight our inclinations on figuring out _why_ we want to get high and either eliminate the urge in a scientific manner or cater to it in a way that is less disruptive?
The wrongness of our approach to this problem seems so blatantly obvious to me that I have to be suspicious of the real motives behind drug prohibitions.
Doug
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