[Turbo_pro]

I appreciate that you are at peace with your past, congratulation. The point is with your experience, you might help other with the potential for self destruction. You've seen it. Why not help others avoid it? How does advocating it's legality help?

I have a friend who was had his drug use well under control. He only partied on the weekend, college grad, owned his own business, owned a house and had a pretty terrific family. His party use of drugs introduced him to the wonderful world of crack and before he knew what was happening he was missing work, the weekend got longer and coming home started to be optional. We saw what was happening and couldn't convince him that he was loosing control. At the advise of friends, his wife moved the kids to a safe place and started looking at option to help him.
A few months pasted and he finally saw the picture. It was a picture of a half dressed man, 2 am, sitting on the ground outside his wife's apartment holding an M16. His kids were fast asleep inside. He had no idea how he got there, but hey, live and let live right? It's his body. Why should we care what he puts in it.

I have had a wife shoot at me, employees steal from me, I've watched friends melt down, friends die and friend kill. All with a direct link to casual drug use.
Crack is a drug of choice for a very short time. Then it's a drug of excuse. There are stages of abuse that are well documented in the health community and they happen in order and are repeatable and predictable. Drugs cause unacceptable behavior. That behavior is predictable. If you're using stay the f*ck away from me. Rehab is good but if it fails jail works fine to that end.