It looks like several street terms for the subject of this forum are classed as obscenities!

Good thing I guess, drugs are bad. They can be used and enjoyed without killing anyone, which brings me to the main point of my argument for the legal availability of drugs.

Columbia has a couple of greens party members hostage, has had for a while now. FARC (http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/tgp/farc.htm) (a revolutionary Marxist Guerrilla group in Columbia) is fighting off the proceeds of Cocaine and heroin.

This is a sad, sad, war on drugs, the children of the soldiers are sponsoring the murder of there fathers.

A legal supply, perhaps grown by the addicts, made available through a similar program as methadone, to registered/diagnosed addicts/users.

It is a tragic outcome, and the religious right has fought honorable, but the parents of the victims are speaking.

If Dope is the gateway to heroin, Alcohol and Tobacco are the gates to dope.

Employment is not the answer, it supports a users habit, without it, the addict becomes a criminal, selling or robbing. Sport? A lot of my friends used drugs, including myself, because we didn't buy the competitive nature of society.

A second suggestion I would make.

Most drugs have a traditional context that they are used in. A time and space.

Regulation, it is being pursued by the No Smoking lobby, successfully, I think most people in this forum would be aware of needle park?

I would like to apologize for my language, the other political forum I go to is a little more raucous! I am used to yelling this in front of an audience of supporters, it sounds better than it reads Again, my sincere apoligies