First, here's something you must know about me: I'm SO VERY anti-drug. I hate drugs...I've seen how X, pot, LSD, heroin, etc. have ruined my friends (ex-friends some of them).
That being said though...I think it is very interesting how more people will try to access things which are illegal (take for example the '20s Prohibition, which didn't work obviously!!). I've asked some of my druggie friends why they do this kinda $hit, which is obviously killing them inside and out. Some say that they do it to alleviate their problems. Some say they do it b/c it has a danger element--since they know that at any given time they can be caught--and that adrenaline rush is "fun."
So I think that SOME problems could be solved if drugs were made legal. HOWEVER, that being said, I totally know that that also opens up a new can of worms...since it's so "free," more and more people might want to try it. Yet, we really do not know what will happen if we made drugs legal...whether that would help or just make things worse!
I really hate drugs, for what they have done to some of my friends, as well as many teenagers...but if legalizing drugs would save some of my friends from self-destructing...I'm all for it.
It's too bad that my school atmosphere (competitive, super-challenging, always in the top three for Best Public High School in all of California) has caused so many of my classmates to become complete druggies...it's sad that I grew up with many of them (I went to a Christian, private school, K-8th grade with them)...unfortunately drugs are their outlets for letting out the immense pressure that we endure at our school.
[This message has been edited by newbie (edited April 30, 2001).]