Comments on This Week on Drugs

Personally, I think it should be safe, legal, and treated like other drugs such as tobacco and alcohol - taxed and regulated and not available to kids.

OK, like we don't have kids smoking cigs (average age of 11-14 according to studies) and drinking booze (usually 12-18) ... but same general concept.

@1: Again, just because kids do it, doesn't mean we should let them.

demand that all elected officials tell us what drugs they did. Then, why they allow 1000's of black men to be in jail for drug possession.

Start with Bush the coke snorter. But don't forget all city and state officials.

Probably half of them did pot and coke.

And if they didn't try it, why would you vote for them?

A Manhattan at a drug conference....hhhmmmmmm good thing they are stopping the flow of DRUGS.
Just kidding, alcohol is indeed a drug and all drugs should be legal with treatment options. Ahhhhh one can dream cant they.

All drugs?

No, @4.

There are many drugs that definitely should not be legal with treatment options. Not that treatment shouldn't always be available.

“For a lot of people in poor and African American communities, the drug war is the only way to get police into their neighborhoods.”

But ultimately, the drug war is what's fueling a lot of the crime in those neighborhoods. The black market is funding the gangs and the competition erupts into violence -- and if you legalize and regulate drugs instead, the gangs would be out of business.