I don't know if you have ever had someone you TRUELY love so addicted that they have killed themselves on a drug overdose or nearly killed themselves on one.  It is one thing to be an addict....it makes you so selfish that you don't care about anyone or anything but the drug itself...but to watch someone you love slowly killing themselves is an absolute NIGHTMARE.  What about all the studies that have been done on long term drug addicts that have been proven to change the chemical balances in the brain.  So whether the drugs are legal or not...the addict is going to use.  If you knew someone you love dearly....like your husband...was going to commit suicide, would you try to help him.  If you saw him day after day struggling with the addiction would you want to help him?  If he was so addicted that he was staying up for days straight and couldn't even go to work anymore because of the addiction....Would you watch him slowly die before your eyes? Laying awake at night wondering if he is going to come home safely from his father's house or friends house safely...or die from an overdose at their HOME and they be too fucked up themselves to notice if he's dead or not. I believe the answer is "No".  You claim to let someone die if they want to destroy themselves by drugs, but would you allow your husband or anyone else to die before your eyes? No..I think not.  True, I'm sure your husband is smart enough not to get addicted so you don't have to go through that nightmare.  But let me tell you...I HAVE with my husband.  I am 33 years old and have been married to my husband now for 9 years.  We have been together since we were 15 years old and I have watched him go from occasional pot use to heavy...then it doesn't stop there...it goes on to acid, cocaine, heroin, meth and everything else in between.  My husband has been clean now for 4 years and is a wonderful husband and father, but it took near death and an arrest to do it.  My husband was introduced to pot by his dad.  His mother commited suicide when he was 3 months old.  She was a drug addict as well as his dad.  She went out into a field...poured gasoline on herself....and lit herself on fire.  So his "father" was all he ever new.  So what ever drug his father did....he shared with my husband.  Taught him how to shoot up and everything.  So when I met him, he just smoked pot but as the years went by he got into other stuff.  It wasn't until I was 19 and pregnant that I realized there might be a problem. But I was in love and wanted or thought I could save him. All I had ever done was smoke pot occasionally and drink beer.  So I didn't understand addiction then and it wasn't something he did all the time. Especially since I didn't approve and would not allow it in our home and around our child.  But as the years went by he could not control it as much as he thought he could or even wanted to. And it was a living hell for both of us. He was in constant battle with it.  He wanted to be a good father and was able to hide it and keep a job for a few years.  But it progressed so bad he couldn't "handle" it anymore.  And it was NEVER hard for him to get...his FATHER was his fucking drug dealer and then my husband would sell it for him and get to do it for FREE most of the time.  I've watched him and his father lie to get money so others could pay for THEIR habit. 

I've also had to watch my brother suffer from drug addiction which resulted in him holding hostage with a shotgun my mom, dad, 2 older sisters, and my 5 year old daughter in our home.  I was at work at the time when I recieved a phone call from one of my sisters.  My brother had been staying with us during the winter because he couldn't afford to pay his electric (couldn't keep a job because of his addiction).  He had broken the padlock off a room in the garage where my dad kept a couple of shotguns...he thought he had cut the main phone line in the house...he wasn't aware that my sister had dialed my work #.  I could hear him SCREAMING demanding money from everyone and my mom's car keys or he was going to KILL everyone!  I COULD ALSO HEAR MY 5 YR OLD DAUGHTER CRYING IN THE BACKGROUND! I found out later that when he came to our home to stay due to a huge snow and ice storm he had "enough" durgs for a day or so but he had been stranded several days because we couldn't get out due to of all the snow. So he was DESPERATE. Needless to say I kept them on the line and called 911 from another line at work.  By the time he got the keys and the money and went outside to clean the snow off the car to take it...the cops were waiting for him.  Thank God it turned out allright. Even if they make all that shit legal it wouldn't matter. Do you think my brother was worried if doing it was legal or not?  Major drug addicts can't keep jobs to pay for their habits(unless of course they are rock stars, actors, models, and politicians) so they will continue to rob, steal, and murder for their drugs.  They would just rob and murder the pharmacist to get it.  Just like they do now for Oxycontin and other prescription drugs.  So those fucking "studies" are bullshit when it comes to a drug addict.  It doesn't have anything to do with someone telling them if they can do drugs or not.  The people I know who are drug addicts could careless if someone says they can or can not.  Of course they would be happy if they aren't at risk for going to jail.  What if we made murder legal?  Do you think the serial killer would want to murder less because it is legal? Absolutely not. To me and my family that I love so dearly....the war on drugs is the one thing I am willing to pay my tax dollars to out of all the other unnecessary shit they use it for!    

Also, I know people who get Oxycontin and other prescription drugs legally through a doctor and they then go and sell those pills to people who DON'T have a medical use for them.  (such as my brother) So the cycle continues no matter what....

Like I said below people wanna fuck up there own life they can go right ahead and do it. It becomes a problem when drug users start fucking up other peoples lives. I had no say so as to what was going on in my life when I was 16 my drug addicted dad made them for me. My cousin did not decide to be born with a mental handicap, his mom decided that fate for him when she decided to do drugs while she was pregnant.
And I don't recall ever saying abortions should be legal.

Stupidity, apperently your full of it!

You never said that you think that abortion should be legal?  I suppose that you think that we should regress prior to 1973 when abortions were ILLEGAL?!?  I have no right to tell you what to believe in.  However, if abortion were illegal, thousands of women would have to revert to back-alley procedures or attempting to terminate their unwanted pregnancies via coat hangers, for example.  Regardless of what you think is "right," taking away a woman's right to a safe, LEGAL abortion would be so destructive and deadly!  I am assuming that you are against abortion because you feel that it is "murder."  The death toll would triple if women were forced to resort to illegal abortions.  What sense would that make?  If you haven't seen it, I suggest that you watch the film, "If These Walls Could Talk."  It is a fantastic film and it explores the subject of abortion in a very unbiased, informative and heart-breaking way. 

women who do not give a shit about the innocent child growing inside their womb and continue to do drugs and put their childs life in danger, they ARE bitches.  When a child is born he/she should be loved, fed, cuddled not be treated for withdrawals or all the other health problems that are caused by doing ALL drugs while pregnant.  Is doing drugs while pregnant a smart thing to do Casi? NO! It's a STUPID INHUMAN thing to do! Therefore I think women who do without consideration for their child ARE bitches! ....Def for INHUMAN : without compunction or human feeling / INHUMANE: lacking pity or COMPASSION. 

You're right about them not loving themselves or their babies enough....that's what drug addiction does to people. The drug IS their love.  But people know right from wrong. Just because someone's had a rough life isn't an excuse.  There are murderers, child molesters, child abusers that have been abused or were unloved as a child and use that same excuse to justify their horrendous actions.  My niece did drugs while pregnant with her third child...(she quit during the first 2 pregnancies but started back up in between)...she was so addicted by the 3rd that she just didn't give a damn about anything but the drug. She has been clean now for 3 years, but she will be the first to tell you that she just didn't give a shit! All that mattered was getting high.  I think it is terrible that some women don't have someone to love them and help them, but it is not enough to justify abusing a child while in the womb or outside.  There are many resources out there to help them. And my statement above is regarding whether drugs should be legal, not about justification for a mother doing drugs while pregnant.  It has been stated over and over on this blog that people shouldn't be told what to do with their bodies, that they should have a choice.  The children being born with drug addictions and medical disabilities weren't given a choice. The people being robbed or murdered by drug addicts to get money for their addiction aren't given a choice. Whether they are legal or not, people will continue to buy them illegally.  There will always be people on the streets selling legal and illegal drugs.  My orginal (long) statement was about my personal war with drug addiction.  I have watched and tried to help more than one person in my life with their addiction.  It is one dark path that I wouldnt wish upon anyone. I'm just stating my PERSONAL reasons why I don't think drugs should be legal.  That's what the blog is asking.  The addict is not the only one that may be harmed physically by their addiction.