Lots of folks are miserable at managing their money too. Maybe the government should take over money management for people? Oh wait, they are!!

Prior to the 20th century the trick in life was to get to age 25. If you could live to see age 25, surviving childhood diseases, ladies dying during labor, being conscripted into wars... you could well live to see age 70 & 80's. The average life span was still less than 50 because many didn't get to age 25. It was the decade 100 years ago that life span in America skyrocketed; the 1920's.

100 years later, humans are much smarter some say.
RIght.
Now-a-days, many among us live as if they prefer to kill themselves with all manner of bad health choices because there isn't much worry about childhood diseases, women dying during labor, or war.
So party on.

The OP asks to be educated on drugs.
There's been endless education about drugs since Woodstock and the winner is: glorification. And it has ruined many a poor boy and girl and everything around them.
It still is.
Legalize it or don't, I don't think either side will be happy how it turns out.
But America is headed to decriminalizing many things so we'll see how the responsible patrons react.
Time will tell.
I argue, it already is in many areas.

Blessings,
Mark

Grease kills more people than alcohol.
Outlaw grease.
Alcohol is part of our Northern European heritage and culture.
Quit with the cancel culture BS.
If you want to cancel something cancel the muzlim middle east african drugs culture.

I wish they would outlaw alcohol so we could get back to moonshining and bootleggin'. These drug dealers are driving some mighty fine wheels around town.

How ever you need to keep the ticker ticking, so you don't need Lucas is a good day.
Boco is correct again.

The only reason teens ( I have one) are not smoking tobacco now is because of the readily available drugs that are destroying our nation. Tobacco doesn’t alter their state of mind and isn’t nearly strong enough for them. Legalizing will only make it easier for them to attain. It’s not the thrill they are after anymore, it’s the high. Wake up

Valid point TC

I would think it wouldnt be any easier than going to school with 50 bucks and buying whatever drug you wanted from who ever is selling them. If your teen is in high school you can safely bet every nickel in your checking account that teen knows where to get drugs.

Do you support outlawing alcohol too, in order to make it harder for your teen to attain?

No one smokes now because they all vape. Anymore it seems like uve won if you keep your kids off fentanyl. If you dont, they will probably die.

bowhunter, you keep referring to the problems caused by drugs. No one is denying that.

Let's discuss the problems caused by prohibition.

We have a classic example of cause and effect in the problems caused by the Volstad Act.

Moral and spiritual decay is really the main issue....I see that a lot of so called conservatives are for legalization of controlled substances/pot. Seems logical that those folks are users....alcohol is also a big bad negative imo. But, the reality is that probably well more than 1/2 the population is a regular drug/alcohol abuser. Abuser = daily usage. E-Z to relax using mood altering substances/alcohol vs learning to just relax and enjoy what is important in life, that my opinion from my perspective, does not make it the right opinion for anyone but me thou.....so do what you want as long as you do not effect me. When I have to watch you shoot up/poo/pee/pass out in public your effecting me and lots of others....that should not be allowed but not only is it allowed (and more than that is allowed) but it is funded with tax money so the scum in office can get easily re-elected.

This country is really finished and I see no changes coming, only more of the same and actually worse than what we have no on the horizon.....get to a high spot and you should be able to see it.

Marty,
Yep. Moral and spiritual decay is ramping up and now we're a nation where increasingly people are excited to "speak out" from any roof top they can climb up on.
What a fine thing to be liberated from! Morals and spirituality.
How's that going for the good old US of A this last century?
Rosy?
More of the same outta be more rosy, don't you figure?

One of the greatest lies in humanism in this, the richest nation on the planet, is that "What they do doesn't effect me. I don't care."
That's hog wash. Poppy poo. Patently false in any societal network and the legions are smiling as we say it.

What we all do certainly effects each other. From the way we act, to the way we interact, to the society we construct around us.
Keep believing the hippie mantra of "do your own thing" but don't count me in that shallow wade pool.
I live among people.
I work among people.
I deal with people.
I have family who are people.
Do you?

So can we stop saying, what other people do doesn't matter to me?
Sure it does.
Oh but wait, that might mean bringing in a baseline of morality! Wouldn't wanna judge.
Another lie. You don't have to be the judge as you promote morals.
The Judge has already spoken.
Only ones I see on the wicked news broadcasts day after precious day are enemies of the Judge.

Besides, show me a person who doesn't have a baseline of wrong and right and I'll show you a person with no baseline pulse.

Blessings,
Mark

Spot on!

I forgot to mention. When walking by one group of them two came up and punched me for no reason. I was more worried about my wife so we just moved on. It was not worth hitting them back. Both of the ones that punched me looked like walking zombies. So sad.

"What we all do certainly effects each other. From the way we act, to the way we interact, to the society we construct around us." - Mark.

Be careful with that philosophy, which could easily be turned in support of banning trapping, depending on who's doing the judging.

Hey Mark, I've completed my school work and will graduate tomorrow night with an MFA. How are your own studies going?

Jim

now thats funny

Well, Carrie Nation busted up some bars with her hatchet and parasol.........

https://www.history.com/topics/crime/saint-valentines-day-massacre

This little get together was often cited when the National Firearms act was being considered

Organized criminal gangs in the business of drug distribution is still the excuse to take our freedom. Yet drugs are available even in rural Alaska.