Agreed - I guess we can go back and forth on the issue all night nodding in agreement, probably with most of the people reading this too. And probably even with most of the lawmakers, secretly.

Eventually common sense will prevail - eventually it will not be a sin to improve our lives through the aid and knowledge of biologists and chemists.

Soon maybe some people won't have to hire a doctor (who is now a criminal, we are told) to kill them to put them out of their misery.

Suddenly, everyone will wake up and think "holy cow, this is crazy - a LOT of people WANT to participate in this world but CANNOT because they are in crippling pain for which the only relief is illegal because some people enjoy it"

I don't know where I'm going with this, just venting I guess. Legally enforced morality, and about something so important to so many people. Is that what it has come down to?

Didn't England make Heroin legal for a couple years some time back? Whatever happened with that, anyway, did the numbers look too good so they got blown under a rug and the law crept back in place, or was the whole experiment actually a failure, does anybody happen to know offhand?