Akron man sent to prison in meth case

You can bust every meth lab you can come up with and you will not even START to put a dent in the huge demand for meth. Meth addicts LOVE their meth and if you shut down the local labs then the Mexican mafia will simply increase the amount of meth it exports into the USA to meet the new demand. Methamphetamine should be legal. Legalizing meth would kill meth labs, meth houses and the meth mafia overnight. A group of 10,000 very serious policemen, prosecutors, attorneys and citizens have formed a group to legalize ALL drugs, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (http://leap.cc ) They see what happened when we legalized alcohol in 1932 as a good example of how drug legalization would work. We can't stop drugs. They're sick of chasing drug users and sending innocent people to prison for decades just because they like to get high. This foolish war on drugs has lasted 37 years and cost us over a TRILLION dollars and we are not an inch closer to stopping drugs. How many millions of Americans are we going to lock up in prison for decades? Legalize ALL drugs now. Mark Montgomery boboberg@nyc.rr.com

Boboberg's comment was so wacked out, he should change his handle to Dodoberg.
His comment "Legalizing meth would kill meth labs, meth houses and the meth mafia overnight" only solves the problem of prison overcrowding.
Is he suggesting that it be made available at Pharmacies? While that may clean up the source, it doesn't really do anything for the addict, their families or the drain on society they create. There is no such animal as the social or recreational meth user.
Remember, meth is a highly addictive drug, that serves no useful purpose, rendering the user to be unemployable, unfit to raise children, uncontrolable in most parts of daily life and finally takes it's toll of health and life.
The making, transporting and selling of this drug all need to remain as they are, Felony Crimes, deserving of prison.
If Boboberg wants to legalize anything, it should be only the decriminalization of the user and only if that addict agrees to treatment and works to be a plus to our already declining social morals, rather adding to the cancer that is costing us so much of what we hold dear.

I actually agree with Boboberg with regards to the way legalization affects the trade and use of such illicit drugs. I don't think anyone should go out and use meth, don't get me wrong. But the illegality of the drug(and others) is what keeps the demand so high. People like this guy get desperate for money or the drug itself, or both, and then you find a bathtub full of chemicals as seen here.

I think pretty much all drugs should be legalized and there should be mandatory education of the cause and effects to all citizens, starting from a pretty young age and of course with parental approval(you're always gonna have the prudish types, and that's their right I suppose.)

It's ridiculous that people get so bent out of shape over methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, lsd, ecstasy, etc.; yet more deaths occur because of prescription medication every year than all the illicit drugs in this country put together. I'm talking about deaths directly related to use of said drugs, not gang-related shootings and drug deals gone bad.

It's okay to take pills to lose weight, manage blood pressure, keep your hair from falling out, control cholesterol, to calm "hyperactive" kids, to help with erections, to "feel better"(hello prozac), and then there's all the over the counter stuff too! How much do American citizens self-medicate everyday without even thinking twice about the effects? What about caffeine and alcohol? There's a lot to take into consideration.

I realize not all of my examples seem as devious as methamphetamine's reputation, but to say that it's a totally worthless drug is inaccurate too(except for the kind that gets cooked in a bathtub.)
It's used as a weight loss aid and to treat children(yes, I said children) with diagnosis of ADHD.
It's just called something else so people don't trouble themselves over the idea... Desoxyn.
(I back my facts up! http://www.medicinenet.com/methamphet...)

Hope I didn't burst any bubbles, olepops45.