The taxes I was talking about would ONLY be for the drugs that get you high and thus have addictive properties.
Except of course, that a number of drugs that get you high
aren't addictive. Marijuana, shrooms, and LSD all leap immediately to mind.
Unless we're back on "emotional addiction", in which case I hope we're ready to enact similar legislation on television and chocolate.
The people are going to buy these drugs either way, so wouldn't it be better for us to gain something from their addiction?
And how about some of those deadbeat alcoholics getting off their ass and taking care of those whose lives aren't wrecked by substance abuse?
Like the one who lives in the alley near my apartment... I swear, that wino's had it too good for too long.
"Creationists make it sound as though a theory is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
-Isaac Asimov