For those who advocate and/or are drawn to illegal drugs, which are increasingly becoming accepted and en vogue via Hollywood and pop culture, are you on crack? Really?
America/World, the war on drugs and police actions against their use and distribution is for the public good, not to rain on your consciousness-expanding parade to which you think you're entitled. How many drug related tragedies, complications, and deaths must occur to change your distorted mind?
On Tuesday evening my brother committed suicide in Vietnam from a drug induced paranoia and depression. This is the second close family member I have lost to illegal substances. Let's continue as a culture to condemn and discourage drug use... Even pot. It may have some medicinal value in some cases, but, generally, it impairs judgement and reaction time, as all drugs do (I totaled a car on weed in high school and could have been seriously injured or died); if you need it to cope, maybe you need to find better ways to deal with life's problems than to have to numb your mind from them. How many pot proponents, who say that the trope, "It's a gateway drug" is just an ill advised canard, have never done any other potentially harmful drugs and started their drug journey with something more potent and dangerous? (Studies indicate about half who experiment with marijuana progress to other drugs.) Yes, knuckleheads, it is; and society needs to stop pretending we should all be smoking it and
/or doing other drugs.
Let's learn from my brother's death and the deaths of so many others whose senseless losses have caused so much grief and heartache.
Man up and boldly warn others if they are on drugs that they are poison and they need to stop entertaining those destructive demons immediately.
It's not about judging others: it's about doing the right thing. Get help immediately and help those who may need it.

Grieving,
M. Fetz