Hi Dan,

The problem with Ice and some other drugs (maybe all of them) is that taking them are not victim-less crimes: Ice especially seems to pose a direct threat to bystanders, women and kids especially, on a scale much worse than grog usually does alone. Its use seems to be worse, and with more consequence, in areas where policing is difficult or non-existent, such as rural towns, and remote communities.

Of course, even kava, which it seems make you a bit dopey, day after day, would have terrible effects on mothers if it meant they couldn't care for their babies and young children properly, putting them in serious danger of malnutrition. I wonder what the Indigenous infant mortality rate is in communities where kava is common, and whether there has been a rise in mortality of young children from 'malnutrition', 'marasmus', 'failure to thrive' or some other euphemism for 'not feeding your kids', in step with the rise in kava consumption over the last thirty years.

So perhaps, where drugs are concerned, including grog, there are no victim-less rugs.

Cheers,

Joe

Personally I know alcohol is a scourge but we certainly allow it to be used. ICE is of course horrible but the real problem is that people want to take their drug of choice. We can mobilise the law, the police and the social workers but the real problem is that people WANT to take drugs.
Lets just let them. Jail the ones who are anti-social and then they can avail themselves of stupefying drugs and hopefully change to that drug when released. Then they sleep the lives away with less harm all round.
Have you not thought this destructive behaviour is more against them than others? We have wasted trillions of dollars (Literally) on trying to prevent what gets worse and worse and it has not worked.
A further thought give the drugs free but include a birth control component as well which should fix a lot of the continuing problems.