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If you look at the numbers addicted to these drugs, them being illegal is not helping. More specifically, putting addicts in jail is not helping. Therefore, we come back to the education argument. If you educate kids that heroin destroys lives, and how it becomes addictive, they are less…

This is really interesting to me. I think we get locked in to certain ways of thinking way to easily. Such as if things are bad they should be illegal. That kind of thought relies on the premise that making something illegal will fix the problem, even when in some cases it will have little affect. I don’t think we examine premises nearly enough. Instead we pass things off as being logical, learn to accept and move on. I guess you can get more done that way but I think depth of thought is important. We don’t really want people taking drugs, but is having drugs be illegal the right solution? I’m not so sure. Education, safety procedures, counselling are other methods that make more sense to me, personally. I don’t see a law as a way of fixing something, more of a way of saying something is wrong, which in the end can possible cause more harm.

Anyways, just some thoughts, this was an interesting post.