Every Home Should Be a Safe Place
February 27, 2016
To use drugs. The mayor of Ithaca, New York, wants the city to be the first to offer “a supervised space where addicts could inject heroin.” “The sites would be staffed by trained medical professionals who could respond to overdoses.”
I have a better idea: There should be no war on drugs. Every home should be a safe place to use or abuse drugs just like every home is now a safe place to use or abuse alcohol. This doesn’t mean that using or abusing alcohol or drugs is a good thing. I neither use nor abuse either, but in a free society what you do in your own home is your business. Truly, the war on drugs is a war on freedom.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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