What comments Branson??? Where?

I say again, I made no comment. Try taking a another look!

You are confused! Are you having dizzy spells too?

I just read in USA Today where the drug cartels have huge controls over Mexican governments. Drug cartels threaten Mexican stability. President Felipe Calderón describing his crackdown as a fight for territory and “the very authority of the state.”

Meanwhile, the War on Drugs is a foreordained failure. We have to tax drugs and decriminalize its use. Locking up people is not solving much of anything. It causes more problems than anything else. It isn’t serving much good.

Just forget about the question, it’s too freeking tough for you!

Other modern nations treat addiction, you want to punish it Mike.
Why waste my time on such foolishness.

“We have more people in jail than China.” — Dan O’brian

Let’s do the math Mike:
China: 1/4 of the world’s population.
U.S.: 303,824,640 people.

Do you get it Mike?

I hardly think Dougles’ son is in want of money for a fix. The best show in town is to treat the disease. Not lock it away and make monsters out of human beings for being, after all, human.

You are far too smug, glib and errantly shoot your gun from hips into the netherland.

What we all have to recognize is that not any one of us has all the answer. Does Dan have a special vision of how society should work, from locking people down like insane monsters, for non violent offenses, for addiction, such is a dim vision.

It’s seeing monsters and shadows where none exist. People make bad choices. Not all of us can be as upstanding and moral as Dan O’brian.

Many can try to emulate Dan O’brian but most all of us fall.

This is no flame but rather an attempt to pry open locked minds. Very often a useless endeavor in the valley of the dark. But like the The Myth of Sysiphus, fools such as I will try.

“…the son of Academy Award winner Michael Douglas — took a guilty plea this week for dealing drugs…”

Did you not see the word “DEALING” Sir?

Do you think dealing drugs is a victimless crime?

There is a quantum leap from a pot user to a heroine addict. So using your legalization of pot arguments in the case of heroine use is like apple and oranges. You’ll not find many anywhere other than the fringes of the left and libertarians, that will find agreement with you or the author of the above article Anthony Papa.

Al Capone would have been out of business with the signing of a prohibition legislation.

Distribution of Heroine? I’m sure you really don’t have a grasp of the heroine trade in Afghanistan.

Encouraging a double tap behind the ear for users? Now that makes a big bunch of sense. Killing does not solve the problems brought by drugs.

What you are saying is because Prohibition was in your opinion wrong we should now beatify Al Capone as a saint. Capone and other bootleggers knew that they were violating the law. Just because Prohibition was repealed did not mean that they were all released from prison either.

I’m seeing a pattern here, you find some ultra rich as the bad guys when they do things like start corporations or give money to political campaigns all within their legal rights to do, but have no problem with a ultra rich dope fiend breaking existing laws, then burdening his hard working parents and society because you think the drug laws are to strict.

There is a big huge difference between the legalization of Pot argument and the sales, use and distribution of Heroine. In this case, in my dictionary of life, sympathy is somewhere between shit and syphilis.

To be quite honest I think they should use the Soviet method of drug rehab on him, a double tap behind the ear and save further heartache of his parents and the $45k a year to house him.

Michael Douglas does not deserve the aggravation.