[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Stu

I'm confused by what you're doing here. In cherry picking certain links and copy and pasting certain quotes you're actually inadvertently just clarifying and supporting my own views that the war on drugs is not working.

In addition to that, why wouldn't there be points for and against? Like I already said the purpose of providing those specific links were to highlight how there is a movement to reform drug law, that it is a feasible idea that people of importance are discussing and that it's not a pseudo science based, unsubstantiated dubious prospect. The exact words you applied to my arguments. And I've achieved just that in posting the links that I did.

Furthermore, when did I say that there shouldn't be a balance? Of course there should be. And that balance is not the war on drugs. It's not the failed effort that you continue to staunchly support. Balance is a fair and rational system that aims to protect people as much as possible from the harms of drugs and to help those who have fallen prey to them but likewise to not piss away billions annually and waste the time and effort of law enforcement in locking up responsible recreational drug users in some weird effort to make the problem just go away.

Prohibition does not work. It is an afront to civil liberties and freedom of conscious.

There are links provided by you stu, and in everyone it is made crystal clear there will never be a shift towards decriminalisation.
You have no idea what I staunchly support... do you?
What this boils down to is the fact some feel they are restricted from doing what they want...like the lady in the OP..but there are restrictions , some social and some legal. There has been for millenia and will continue to be...