Commentary
“Do you think drugs should be legalized?” The first time I was asked this question, I got so angry I left the room. My response was typical of my demographic as a politically conservative Christian woman. Have you lost your mind, not to mention your faith? Drugs can cause catastrophic destruction of lives and families. So why on earth would we legalize them?
Then I became a foster mom, and I began to see how harm from drugs falls into two categories. One category is the harm a substance can do to the person taking it, but the other is harm from the drug policy of prohibition. The more I learned, the more I became convinced that drug prohibition is responsible for much of the harm we blame on drugs….