>These are problems with drug prohibition, not drug use. This is like blaming whiskey for Al Capone. You are partly correct(except for on overdose deaths). If

>These are problems with drug prohibition, not drug use. This is like blaming whiskey for Al Capone. You are partly correct(except for on overdose deaths). If illicit drugs were legal, they would be a lot cheaper - thus less crime to obtain them. But there are plenty of Alcoholics today who do these same things for LEGAL alcohol. The real problem though lies in what would happen if illicit drugs were accepted and available in society. Drugs are bad. What good comes of them for normal healthy people? How will they improve society? By letting people forget about their problems for a while rather than deal with them? I don't understand how they would make things so great. >Children follow the vicious drug cycle because of genetics. Most personality traits are fixed at the time of conception. Whose almost always end up in prison? Lifer junkies kids, or reformed junkies kids? I have known two sets of identical twins (genetically identical) where one became a junkie (went to prison, homeless, etc) after falling in with the wrong crowd, and the other twin became a very successful person. The difference? one twin was convinced that it was OK to use illicit drugs, the other was not. Do know that Native Americans are almost all ore-disposed to alcoholism, yet there were none before America was colonized by Europeans?