... an earlier message (which you gratuitously called lawyer double talk), it is always the person at fault, not the instrumentality (nor any drug which might be involved).

>> ... remove the drugs from the equation and you remove the cause.

Wrong. Remove the illegality of the drugs and you remove the need and/or motivation for most of the criminal activity involved with drugs.

Don't recall now who said it, but:

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to relive it."

E.g., Prohibition.

----- jim o\-S