Alcoholism deaths are also more than double the number of drug overdose deaths. Of course, no one is talking about banning alcohol (nor should we).rotor wrote:The CDC says 100 people die of a drug overdose every day and 3/4 of these are prescription drug overdoses, not a junky with a needle in his arm. We care more about this case because we identify with him. We have seen him on the silver screen. Nobody cares about the other 99 that died yesterday. He made his choices and paid the penalty for bad choices. Let him rest in peace. We will never "win" a war on drugs. There will always be people who will abuse them. Laws don't change human nature.
Liberty also means people can and do make stupid choices.