Dear Lorikeet,

Have you ever played chess?

If you think just one step ahead, your opponent may place his queen where you can easily take it, but then if you take his queen, you get a check-mate in the next move.

The move to criminalize drugs was short-sighted, seeing only one step in advance. The results beyond that first step produce more drugs and more crime, rather than less.

What should worry you much more, is that if you create or support a culture where you can criminalize any behaviour that you don't like (and which I don't like either, just as yourself), then in the next move, others are going to criminalize the behaviours which THEY don't like, including possibly the things that are most dear to you in life as the apple of your eye. Suppose for example that the Greens come to power and criminialize religion (which they consider to be drug) - where will you turn then to seek refuge and justice, having done them something similar in the past?

I have no doubt that the Greens will find ways to get rid of all religions except their Pagan Carbon Faith.

However it doesn't necessarily follow that if we continue to outlaw drug taking, less dangerous pursuits will necessarily be added to the list.

Greens seem to love all of the things that are bad. The biggest and most useful task is to keep them out of contention altogether, thereby putting paid to numerous bad ideas.

You can trust in the fact that I am actually several steps ahead, while others lag far behind.

Yes It is a debate that we must have, even if the solution has already bolted . . .

But more importantly we need an educated debate about Drugs and the Law, not the pathetic illogic being passed off here as 'informed opinion' . .

To then discover that Damien is a NSW Liberal politician and the Chair of the Legislative Assembly Committee on Legal Affairs, left me gobsmacked at his ignorance.

The NSW Parliamentary Library Research Library has numerous background and discussion papers available, and yet seemingly ignored by our Politicians.

Damien, I would suggest you do some background reading to inform yourself on this issue as your mis-understanding of crucial aspects of the debate is naive and unacceptable.

Majority support for Cannabis decriminalisation has existed for decades in Australia and it is hightime that the polticians caught up with community beliefs on this.

The time for reform is now!

To get to the crux of the matter, anything that is either legalised or decriminalised is encouraged. All we need to do is look at the most deadly legal drug:

Alcohol is responsible for more human suffering in terms of accidents, disabilities, relationship breakdowns, deaths and related financial costs to the society than anything else.

To give another example, in my youth both sodomy and buggary were illegal. When they were decriminalised, homosexuals came out of the closet and all manner of alternative sexual practices were first accepted, then encouraged, and then taught to our children as being part of the norm.

Then the internet began to degrade human relationships with all types of pornography e.g. heterosexual, homosexual, polygamous, paedophilial and bestial.

Now angry mobs are screaming for sexual equality and demanding Same Sex Marriage.

Gynaecologists are now finding animal semen in women's reproductive tracts.

There are also leading animal ethicists who think it is okay to have sex with an animal, providing the animal doesn't mind, since a human is "one of the great apes". How long will it be before Bestials are demanding to marry their pets?

Eventually I am also expecting to see people who have been charged with Paedophilia citing social indoctrination via the internet as the cause of their interest in young children.