Clayton. I completely agree with John Lennon's assessment of drugs and the drug culture (from the 1980 David Sheff interview, taking about his song Cold Turkey): "They're so stupid about drugs! They're always arresting smugglers or kids with a few joints in their pocket. They never face the reality. They're not looking at the cause of the drug problem. Why is everybody taking drugs? To escape from what? Is life so terrible? Do we live in such a terrible situation that we can't do anything about it without reinforcement from alcohol or tobacco or sleeping pills? I'm not preaching about 'em. I'm just saying a drug is a drug, you know. Why we take them is important, not who's selling it to whom on the corner." Why we take them should be a topic valued higher than persecution of the people peddling them. If we want the sickness to go away, we have to go to the root. Why are people so upset that they inject poison into their veins? Reality doesn't suck - something makes it suck. Let's find out what that is, together. The fact that people break the current laws and get themselves into serious trouble is not an indicator that the laws should be dropped. Rather, I think a mandatory death penalty for those guilty of trafficking drugs - with a very zealous and well funded enforcement would be a better solution. I completely agree with John Lennon's assessment of drugs and the drug culture (from