Have a look at the policies on drugs in the countries that have the least problems.

Tony Lavis I agree legalize it now,, and ignore those who name its users as druggies
Here locally and in a life that saw me mix with many different people even shared it with serving police officers, it is not the drugs I highlight.
Right now ICE kills more every day, it ruins lives by the thousands, it destroys familys.
The party drugs on sale at rave party can include pure poision
We must not ignore its devastation on us all.

Nobody has ever died from a marijuana OD,
Toni Lavis,
that does make marijuana look harmless however, have you got info on how many deaths are attributable to loss of concentration due to the drug ?
I have seen people pretty spaced-out just after a couple of joints & drinks. I am certain there were many road deaths because of this. So, your implying that dope is not as bad as hard drugs is not quite in perspective.
The old LSD was a great Gene pool detergent when the users thought they could fly.

Yeah I agree, legalize dope and stop Ambos treating ODs at dance parties, and on the street and clubs, after all if they are silly enough to take the rubbish why should we bother to come to their aid. Ambos can better ways to spend their time and treat genuine accident victims.

Great way to get rid of fools I reckon and raise the general IQ of the country. Pity we have to spend time and money on raising and educating them.

The Sydney Morning Herald, a few years back did an
article on whether the "good old days" were really
all that good? We have drug problems now, we have
corruption, we have criminal gangs - but according to
that article - all of that is nothing new. OK, they
say that there was no ice or heroin - but they
wondered whether very many people today would remember
that the six o'clock swill was probably one of the worst
drug situations that humanity has ever had.

We're told that at the six o'clock forced closing of pubs,
people would finish work at 5.30pm and drink as many beers
as they possibly could and then when the bar was about to
close they'd get half a dozen beers and stick them on
the windowsill outside, which you were allowed to do, until
they were almost paralytic drunk. Now that was not a pleasant
thing to go home to your wife and family with.

These were drunken people who were also beating up their wives
and their kids. So to look at drugs as a recent problem is
just not true. In fact in some ways we're told that it was worse
then than it is today.

You will never get rid of drugs. But as we learned with alcohol -
you can decriminalise it and control it. The same should go with
the problem drugs we have today. We also need stronger sentences
and crack downs on the criminals who sell these drugs (honest
judges and police officers would help). And also injecting
rooms to help wean drug addicts off drugs would help.
As proven in Victoria - injecting rooms do work.

As proven in Victoria - injecting rooms do work.
Foxy,
Any info on how much it costs a drug abuser to visit there ? Are these facilities paid for by us taxpayers ? If so why ?
Do alcoholics get a free drink ?