[GordonS]

This is not confined to the DEA, or the USA. Drug policy in many countries is based on fear-mongering and policitcal point-scoring.

Case in point, the tabloid press in the UK brands anyone that uses any illicit drug a "junkie"; another, UK politicians are unlikely to legalise recreational use of anything beyond caffeine, alcohol and nicotine in our lifetimes.

Humans have used psychoactive drugs since the beginning of time, and the long, damaging and fruitless "war on drugs" demonstrates that we still and always will - surely it's time for a different stance on drugs?