I have known many a drunk on the street that would slit your throat for that next drink. I guess it all depends where you grew up.
Maybe we should start prohibiting alcohol and pre-emptively arresting alcohol users. Goodness knows, if you say it's true, they must all be out to kill us. Will somebody please think of the children!
I guess if this is how you choose to perceive what I wrote.
I was making a point about the prejudice of drug prohibition. It's future crime. You can't have X drug because X might
cause you to do Y bad thing. Pre Juduced. You are judged before you do. The second problem there is that people consider alcoholism a disease (please discuss in other thread), and because a disease is an uncontrollable thing, it's really not their fault. It's the drug's fault. Sure it makes the addict feel good, but it's not objectively true (which is the only thing that really matters). Because it's really "the drugs" that are causing crime, there is enough public health consideration to take the rights to use them away. Or so the argument goes. Me? I believe in free choice and I believe that individuals should be judged on an individual basis, not by what is in their blood, but by what their actions are.
If people are harming others. Lock them up for those harmful actions. But if nobody is being harmed but consenting, responsible adults, leave them alone. The alternative to this is punishing all individuals (including responsible ones) based on group membership (drug users), which is wrong.