I do, and it's the reason I hold such draconian views on drug dealers, in that I believe people who deal or smuggle drugs should be shot. Perhaps it's a bit personal ,Iam not being clear minded about it, but after what happened to a friend at my gym years back I completely changed the liberal opinion I had about drugs, especially cannabis. This friend of mine, had a huge amount of promise,he was some years older than me but I saw him a bit like a big brother in a way he was extremely strong, and massive, he could have been a professional bodybuilder, he was a good looking man as well,always had a woman on his arm. He had a tremendous work ethic in the gym,no one trained like he did or since.
Anyway... that was until he got introduced to cannabis, me and people around him noticed the deteroriation in him mentally, and physically he was becoming lazy ,and fat. He then started using harder stuff, heroin or 'smack' as we call it round here. My other friend who owns the gym had to sack him,because he started putting his hand in the till, ie stealing and also because he would pretend to be running things and then go and try and score some smack. He was still allowed to use the gym though started using steroids on top of the smack,cannabis etc etc , but things just got worse and worse, He ended up going beserk at his parents home, and he had to be sectioned under the mental health act, he apparently seriously assaulted several police officers in the process of it,at that point he was over six feet and well over twenty stone.
He spent months in the hospital, and then was given a little flat down a notorious street full of prositutes, druggies and assorted freaks, while he was living there his mum died and she left him some money. The dirty drug dealing scum found out about this, and basically persuaded some prostitute to befriend him and scam all the money out of him, it was tens of thousands of pounds. We got to hear about this, and something was done,which I probably won't talk about , but basically almost all the money had been spent by the time certain people were paid a visit. I could have killed someone at one point. And going into their lives to try and find this money, the things I had to do to try to find it I needed a shower after . woke me up to what drugs do and what needs to be done by brave politicians, a 'war' on drugs, there is no 'war' on drugs asfar as I can see the police here don't give a fukk so long as the shyt stays off certain nice streets , I would have shown them what war is,but I would have spent my life in prison.The first politicians that actually wants an actual war on drugs where these streets are cleaned up and disinfected , I won't just vote for him I would ,donate and join that party.
Now I know some liberal people will say, he probably had a mental vunerability, some people can use cannabis without that happening to them,but so what if he did? we should always protect the weak, it seems these days we car more about animals than we do people. We have alchohol (bit late to restrict or make that illegal now sadly), and cigs, we have enough vices right now, we have wall to wall porn available ,the gays have their equal rights, so to will the paedos , isn't that enough for liberal minded people,?
I saw him a few months, back,he has lost all the weight, but has a long grey beard, he looks homeless, could only mumble to me,he is only in his early forties. Looks sixty