Legalization: Viewpoints: To reduce drug use, get rid of drug laws

More from California. We like his thinking.

To reduce drug use, get rid of drug laws - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee: "My question is more fundamental: If everyone agrees that drug use is such a bad thing, why do we need laws against taking drugs at all?


Before you recoil in horror that such a notion should even be broached, explain how lifting prohibitions will increase drug use that current laws have failed to curtail. Are you saying we don't trust parents to convey to their children that drugs are a bad idea, so let's rely on the nanny state government we always complain about to do it for us?" Oct. 15, 2010, by Bruce Maiman