Your response to my question regarding why Jacob and I are getting immature responses is that our ideas are “out there?” I spent a great deal of time writing these comments because I care about the topic, and I thought I’d get some decent responses. What it looks like is that most have a blind faith that drug prohibition is the solution to the drug problem.

Can anyone at least provide some evidence that favors drug prohibition and is willing to have a discussion? If drug prohibition is indeed the solution, people should be able to provide data and evidence instead of insults and belittlement. I would respect your answers if they were something other than blind dismissal. I would certainly contemplate them if they had evidence supporting your position.
If what I have read here is all the support for drug prohibition I can find, I will certainly push harder for the end of the drug war.

Regarding me leeching off society, perhaps I misread bobbys comment.

I am not opposed to the idea of the death penalty, only that its current implementation allows for too many people who were wrongfully accused to be put to death, with no compensation for the mistake made to the families. It should be reexamined, and a better solution should be implemented to make certain that only criminals worthy of death are executed.
I originally grew up in the Bronx, NY. I spent most of my life there. I have seen the effects drugs have on people. I have visited drug and rehabilitation clinics, and have volunteered there. There are people close to me that have had, or continue to have substance abuse problems. Also, having attended a public school, I can inform you that a suspension of drug prohibition is not necessary to easily access cocaine, meth, marijuana, ectasy, lsd, etc. at any grade level! I am also not a liberal, much less of the bleeding heart variety.

Now, Bank robbery is not a victimless crime. Stealing a penny from someone still creates a victim and is still wrong. You are correct in stating that parents need to be responsible. Indeed, this will go a long way to correcting the problem, and many other problems in our country. It is an excellent way to curb drug abuse. Binge drinking is an example of this: in Italy and in Greece, where children are exposed to wine, and educated about proper consumption, the binge drinking rate is only 2%, where in other european nations, it approaches 25% and in the US, according to the CDC it is 51% of adults 18-20. Just Christianity may not affect the problem. According to a 1998 survey of students in Christian colleges, 40% of seniors drank alcohol weekly, and 20% of all students surveyed drank to get drunk (it was not clear if this included binge drinking, but drunkeness is clearly a problem). and If parents educated their children on the proper consumption and dangers of alcoholic beverages, their abuse should decline dramatically, with no need for alcohol prohibition.

Similarly, this can be applied to drugs. Even though I spent most of my life in environments where I could very easily purchase drugs, and had friends who abused drugs, and knew drug dealers, I never purchased or used them. My parents, and my church did a very good job on educating on drug use. I knew what the long term effects were, and did not want to experience those effects.

Now, ending the drug prohibition will dramatically decrease the price of drugs, which will then drive out the crimminal aspect of it (being able to afford drugs rather than resorting to stealing, gangs and mafia can’t make a profit anymore and their activity decreases), increase the quality (less accidental overdoses, though I have not seen a marijuana overdose – it may be hard to smoke the 150lbs necessary for overdose), decrease in necessary prison space (1 in 31 Americans is currently in prison/jail or parole. Many for drug related offenses), and allow people with a substance abuse problem to publicly seek help without fear of arrest.

Also, why do you consider “Healing our World,” to be crap?