im sorry all that happened andrew, but u r the minority...for most, stuff like that doesnt happen. also, u blame all of that on drugs, i do not. one, ur father's friend must have REALLY been tripping hard to stab someone to death(so he abused acid because he took too much), two, that wouldnt have happened if he wasnt brought up in such a bad family. u say ur whole family has been affected by drugs and addiction, addiction yes, drugs no....this is why we need to tell people the truth and educate them about the difference between drub use and drub abuse....your family abused drugs, and, as with anything that powerful, if you abuse it it will destroy u. if u use it responsibly it can show u parts of the mind and conscious u never knew existed. again, with drunk driving, it isnt the alcohol that killed the people, its the moron using the alcohol that decided to drive....again, they abused that power, and they should be punished, but dont blame the alcohol...because for everyone case of a drunk driver or someone triiping their balls off killing someone, i can show u hundreds(if these were documented, but they are not, all we ever see in the news are the idiots that get rushed to ER or OD, or kill someone) where a person is sitting at with with a few friends enjoying drugs responsibly, and hurting no one. I realize uve been bad experiences with drugs, but dont let those experiences form ur judgement on them, because u have never seen the good they do. all of what ive said boils down to this, people should be allowed to do whatever they want, as long as it doesnt threaten anyone elses lives, and if they choose to do hurt people they shoul be punished.....but dont punish the millions that dont stab people, that dont drive under the influence, just because a few do. u should try some drugs and see what they really are and what they really do, ull only become addicted if u think u will, because in the end every time u use a drug u make a conscious choice of whether or not u want to, and whether or not it worth it....i hate how people through around "addiction" like its some monster that will consume u....tobacco is addictive, cocaine can make u an addict the first time, etc etc etc, ive used tons of drugs and i dont consider myself an addict, it all depends on will power, if u have no willpower, u will become an addict no matter what, if not to drugs, to something else u enjoy, and addiction in any form, whether it be drugs or not, is all equally bad. u look at europe or the netherlands and see how alcohol and marijuana and shrooms are respected, they dont have as many drunk drivers or even as meen teens using weed as in the US, where its illegal....why? because they tell people the truth, and the truth is a little of something isnt going to hurt u...cocaine isnt going to make u an addict or kill u the first time, as long as u dont snort a 1/8, which is probably where they get those garbage figures from, and marijuana doesnt mean ur going to eventually become a heroin addict...drugs r simply keys to mind, each one unlocking a different state on consciousness, if all people understood this we wouldnt have the problems we have today, and our country would be much, much, much better off.