[Claire]

I guess my beef is with the physical toll that heroin and meth take on the body versus something like pot.

Kelly's uncle is......as I type.....wasting away to nothing and dying due to the effects of alcohol on his various systems. His liver is shot, as are several other vital organs and he's just waiting to die.....nothing can be done. So I have seen the mess that alcohol can do a body (and a family--he's got three grown children that he basically ditched 20 years ago, because alcohol was more important). But it's such an extreme case.

I have nowhere special I'm going with this rambling post....my thoughts on all of it have shifted over the last several years, so I don't have a firm stance anymore.