| Interesting stuff. :)
Read 'Ben Elton's ' - " High Society ".
It is about this very topic. Very good. Very insightfull.
It is the old mistake of legislators, in spite of experience invariably showing that laws, however barbarous they may be, have never served to suppress vice. The more severe the penalties imposed on the consumers and traffickers of drugs, the greater will be the attraction of forbidden fruits and the fascination of the risks incurred by the consumer, and the greater will be the profits made by the speculators, avid for money.
But fear holds back governments. Fear that we will all become 'drug addicts' over night. A few for all, frenzy of drug taking. A mad rampage of luncy. Also i think it is a big fear of loss of control. Most governments are control addicts, they want to control every aspects of our lives. That is why there is so much paperwork involved in life.
What goes 'up', must come 'down', unless it goes around and round. |