"Drugs cost the tax payer. If you want to use drugs, never use rehab, that costs the tax payer."

Agreed, unless of course the drug-user wants (and can afford) to pay for it themselves.

Who ever asked for my consent as a tax-payer to pay for the, often repetitive, hotel-fees of others? If I were to go on holiday or on a retreat to recharge my own batteries, nobody else would be paying for that!

The unions plus green labor have conspired to force up housing values in the greater brisbane area by some 215% over their last 10years of public administration.

This agenda is pushed by the large global corps like Monsanto.Obama wants to legalise a medicinal form of marijuana that would be a GMO sterile version.All other strains would be illegal.Just like all the other legal drugs,it is about cornering the market.

The cost of Rehab is miniscule compared to the economic and social cost of prohibition. The cost of needless incarceration and enforcement is massive by comparison Yuyustu. You sound like a classic red wine expert.

Of course your working on the false assumption that drug experiences corrupt and alcohol doesn't. This is the type anti-substance reactionary waffle that you find at the end of every bar in Australia. The destruction of brain cells along the road to alcoholism entrench the type of small minded views you express as well.

You model your understanding of alternative recreational substances based upon your understanding of alcohol ,the most devastating and harmful of recreational substances. It is an enebrient, something by definition that renders it user out of control. Not all substances are enebriating only a very small number. In reality the most cost effective thing we could do for our society is "to only allow alcohol to be consumed in a controlled environment" thereby eliminating the cost of enebriated users causing havoc.

Of course if drugs were legal, crims would have to go back to robbing banks and the popularity of alcohol would quickly wain because is at the bottom end of recreational substance experiences anyway. It is in fact not very good and the most immediately harmful and socially damaging of all drugs if the truth be known.

Dear Thinker 2,

I do not drink alcohol, I do not use drugs, I believe that both are bad for you, but I do not support the prohibition of either in any shape or form.

People are responsible for their own lives. No government has the right to tell us what we may and may not do. All I was asking in my previous post was: "If you make poor choices, please don't send me the bill".

yuyutsu
if you can post a link to the number of people entering rehab for mescaline use in 2009 - 2010 i'd be most appreciative