As the Christmas approaches, a carol was born to warm up the hearts and spirits. It's A Drug War Carol.

As any open-minded, rational person I am against the prohibition of drugs. First of all, drugs are just things, objects, that cannot be sensibly thought of as evil or harmful. That you can hurt yourself using drugs is no more a reason to ban them than murders are a reason to ban ropes, knives, and poisons. Drugs do have positive uses.

Second of all, banning drugs does nothing to limit their use among population. Netherlands, where you can legally buy marijuana has less drug use than USA, where you'd get thrown in jail for that.

Third of all, most of the harm resulting from the use of drugs is only due to their illegality. If a drug addict could get a hit for a twenty-pence, he wouldn't have to rob a hundred quid from someone, he could just bum the money. The drug industry, not fueled by the huge profits anymore, would turn into simple and transparent farming and chemical industries, honest and tax-paying folk.

And last but not least, as most drugs tend to raise self-consciousness, they could aid the evolution of our societies into more just, supportive ones — so that, as Bill Hicks used to say, "something like heaven might dawn."