[hmkpoker]

This goes out to all the people that are saying drugs should be illegal:

You need to get out and do some drugs.

Seriously. Drugs are not the demons they are made out to be.

People are not the suicidal lemmings you think they are. Making something legal doesn't mean that everyone is going to do it. The reason why most people don't do heroin is because they know that it's bad for your body, highly addictive, and causes a horrible comedown. The negative consequences of heroin usage are unsettling, and constitute pretty good reason to avoid it. They're responding to an inherent incentive. This is why most people with access to heroin (average drug users) don't do it.

Doesn't it seem a little ridiculous to assume that people will completely ignore the incentive of an unlikely negative outcome (negative effects of drug use), but will respond to an even more unlikely outcome (being the victim of the War on Drugs)

Why aren't DXM and whippet abuse problems in this county? Every sixth grader knows that you can get messed up on cough syrup and whipped cream cans. Hell, you can get messed up on huffing pain thinner, yet people are voluntarily electing not to do it.