Quote Originally Posted by Del Murder View Post
The war on drugs killed PSH? Come on. He had an addiction to a dangerous (and rightfully illegal) substance. He should not have broken the law to repeatedly use the substance in the first place. It's a terrible loss to the entertainment industry, but he's responsible for his undoing, not the government.
I think The Man covered things pretty well. All the available evidence points to the criminalization of drugs being ineffective, counter-productive, and dangerous. Sure, Hoffman had an addiction, and that is rough and what lead to him using the heroin that killed him. But the drug being illegal is what made the stuff he used outright deadly. And it is a shame to hear an intelligent person such as yourself say that the drugs should be illegal when there's plenty of reason to think they really, really shouldn't be.

Say what you will about whether or not someone should use drugs. The fact is there are always going to be people who do, and I'd much rather see them having access to a safe product that isn't produced and trafficked by violent cartels than be forced to risk their lives everytime they use and possibly never get the help they need or kick the addiction as a result.