"... imagine how many more would be lost if other drugs were made legal..."

Not necessarily, I suspect. All the people who want to use drugs are using them now. What legalization might do is reduce the push for newer members of the club. If legalization took the profit out of it, would the current pushers still be pushing?

Kids today have been trained to be good consumers, of both good and bad merchandise. Parents think they can overcome peer pressure... well, dream on! Parents rarely even see their kids these days, their influence is rather minimal.

And the killer of that family won't serve any 40 years, that's for certain! The charge is Aggravated Vehicular Homicide. Why not call it what it was: MURDER. He killed them as surely as he would have, had he put bullets into a gun and shot each of them in the head.

I read in the main rag in Las Vegas that the average male murderer served something like five years; the average female murderer served eight. He'll probably be out on the road again before Blast's girls are old enough to vote, with a bottle of cheap whiskey in his hand and his foot welded to the throttle.

Sue