Why Good Parents Should Support Drug Legalization
May 4, 2013 |
A friend of mine used to laugh when I said I was in favor of legalizing all drugs. He just couldn’t fathom such a position. He told me that if they legalized drugs, “It would take all of the fun out of it.”
Three years after he died of a heroin overdose, I wonder whether he’d be alive now if drugs had been legal.
As a father, I sometimes find myself on the receiving end of an argument that’s a perennial favorite [3] of the hardened drug warrior: Why would I, the father of a nine-year-old girl, advocate for a society awash with legally available drugs?
The answer is simple: My daughter is already growing up in a society in which illegal drugs are easier to procure than alcohol. Unlike the guy behind the counter of my local liquor store, I’ve never known a drug dealer who checked IDs.
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If you buy alcohol you know it’s not cut with rat poison.
If I had a kid, I don’t want the to die for a mistake.
Similarly, I don’t what them to spend time in jail for what is basically a medical condition.
And, like in Prohibition, all the killings are from drug dealer’s turf war.
So I want Walmart, Walgreens, and RiteAid to be the nation’s drug dealers.
We’ll all be better off!
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Reinke Faces Life 