Singer Tony Bennett calls for legalizing drugs

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31. So WHAT do we legalize?

OK, I'm biased, so I am OK with marijuana being legalized. But I'm not naive enough to say that it is harmless - indeed I am way too experienced for that. I know that despite some stoners living in denial, it DOES negatively impact your driving ability. It makes you cough up scary looking chunks of WTF. And it zaps the hell out of your motivation, to the point it can cost you jobs and relationships. But the negative impacts of prohibition outweigh the positives.

But cocaine? Has ANYONE ever met an experienced powder or crack cocaine user whose life was NOT a train wreck? And unfortunately, a lot of innocents get hurt in those wrecks.

We need treatment programs for cocaine, opioid, alcohol, and prescription pill abuse. And we need a system that can ASSURE the people who need it, not only can, but MUST, get it. Do you have a better solution for forcing people into treatment? Maybe make it easier for loved ones and social service workers to have people committed for inpatient treatment?

As for the greedy cocaine and heroin importers and sellers who could care less how many lives and communities they destroy? Throw them in a cage for a VERY long time next to the mortgage fraudsters and others who have damaged our national economy and psyche.