VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Dinah|DATE|1380746506|CONTENT|Religion can become just as much an addiction or ‘obsessive pre-occupation’ as anything else.  I have met people who are literally crazy about Jesus, and can’t get enough of him.  The pushers of hate-fuelled religious fanaticism are no better than drug-pushers and possibly worse.  Their victims go on to infect others and at the extreme, fuelled by their addiction, they kill themselves and those around them by becoming suicide-bombers.

As for the ‘war on drugs’ it can never be won.  Prohibition of alcohol in America didn’t work, so why did anyone imagine that banning recreational drugs would turn out differently?  Banning things like alcohol and drugs only makes them more attractive and tempting, particularly to the young.  It puts millions of pounds in the pockets of greedy drugs barons, encourages anti-social behaviour, increases prostitution and the crime-rate with users stealing or selling themselves to pay for their habit.  It is common-sense to treat addicts as victims rather than criminals, and give them access to a controlled, legalised supply of drugs which have not been adulterated with all manner of noxious substances.  
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