I don't do illegal drugs although I do have my drugs of choice: coffee, music, food.

I think that legalizing at least some drugs and near-drugs deserves a serious look.

Marijuana, for instance. It would be hard to make a case for it being a menace to society. Smoke a toke and you're not going home to beat your wife and babies; the same cannot generally be said of alcohol.

And yet, alcohol is legal; regulated and heavily taxed, true, but it is still a killer that is accepted by law and in society.

Chasing the will-o-wisps of drug trafficking has not been shown to be a great success, because there is no way the law can catch up, much less keep up, with the Medusa of drug users.

Take away one of the legs of the stool and see what happens. That's all I'm sayin'.