Mandrec, I knew someone 50 years ago who said that this country wouldn't be able to afford the institutions necessary to house people who had become mentally unable to function in daily life independently because of brain damage caused by drug use. In the same era, I had high school seniors who told me that they could go to almost any place they wanted and obtain the drug of choice within 15 minutes.

That's the truth, and I can only imagine what it must be like out there now.

Some of us have been lucky enough to have been insulated from that in our society, although I feel sure by this time that it is a world-wide problem and one that is going to have to be ultimately addressed by governments to supply support.

No, I agree that one doesn't need a first year chemistry understanding to know that it's a problem in the U.S. One has only to look at the neighbors who come to this forum and express difficulties they're having with misuse of drugs, both illegal and legal, for that matter.

I think I said earlier that we choose our poison; we choose,also, the health (in many respects) that we want.