[Gayle]

I waded through the first post and it is possibly the saddest reflection on life that I've ever read.

The statement that jumped out at me was that "The real problem with drugs in the modern world is that they are illegal." No, that is not the problem - the problem is that they are addictive, destructive and dangerous. And yes, I concede that they probably haven't got the real drug barons off the streets by this one conviction but as far as I can see, every single arrest helps and gets one more nasty, evil drug dealer out of the way.