Those of you who regularly read this column know that I favor the re-legalization of all drugs. This is obvious.
Legal drugs are worse for the individual and for society than almost ALL illegal drugs.
Anybody who reads the newspapers has been apprised of this fact. The Drug Warriors would have us ignore this, saying instead that while it may be true, adding even more dangerous and destructive substances to the list of legal drugs will make it even worse. The recent push to further curb the use of tobacco underscores this point. They wish to save us from ourselves, since we seem to them to obviously be unable to do so for ourselves. If they have to lock us up or kill us to save us, so it goes.