Yep, me too M.

The reason I get so angry at both the "Legalise..(insert your drug of choice)..." and "Hang all druggie scum" brigade (and, I guess, why I initially bristled at your post) is that they seem to forget that each druggie is someone's tragic child, a child who used to be drug-free, and a treasure.

Few young people go down the hard-drugs road completely of their own volition - they are influenced and encouraged by highly manipulative people, and frequently ones who are much older and street-wise, who start them on the 'easy' stuff and roll them along into other things.

Sadly, the process seems to be happening very publically in the case of Amy Winehouse and her Druggie-Control-Freak Manager/Husband.