WA Board of Pharmacy uses emergency ruling to ban 'bath salts'

I never said they did.

"Prohibition of a man made substance that is used solely to destroy life should be prohibited."

Yes, prohibition should be prohibited, but my guess is that's not what you were trying to say...

I'll say it again -- as you seemed to have missed my point -- what we need to work on is the best way of reducing harm. It is abundantly clear that this is not prohibition. I mean, have you read any of the research at all?

"Your comment is insensitive and callous."

And yours is... infused with love?

"Guest is trying to educate the public on this very issue and you have the audacity to criticize him. You should be ashamed....you're behavior is descusting."

First of all, I didn't criticize "guest" -- I was trying to educate guest.

But you know, I could argue that your behavior is pretty disgusting too. Instead of actually educating yourself about what works best in the area of public health policy, you just blindly choose the option that makes you feel best about yourself (you know, feel like you're actually doing something), all the while sacrificing innocent lives because of your irrational clinging to irrational polices.

If "X" works better to save more lives, and you choose "Y" anyway on emotional grounds, I don't see where you can justify your obvious feelings of ethical superiority. Yea, you may feel good about your actions, but they're not doing good. That's pretty self-centered, isn't it?

My ethical compass tells me to speak the truth, even it if is somewhat unpopular. Because, frankly, reducing harm for our youth is much more important to me than getting a "for shame on you!" from some random, uninformed Internet troll.

Your intentions may be good, but you're taking the world with you on your road to hell. Please don't.

So, what are you going to do with your tragedy? Use it to maintain the dysfunctional status quo, or use it as a springboard towards speaking the truth.

Make no mistake: you have an ethical course or action open to you. But it seems like you're going in the wrong direction. Don't you even care about other people's children? Don't you think that society should exercise its best options in trying to protect them?

Show my one reputable, peer-reviewed article on substance harm that suggest prohibition is at all effective. Just one.

You can't do it, so open your mind and start considering what should be done. Or don't -- just continue to be part of the problem.

Yes, because that strategy has worked so well, every time its been tried!