Respond to two individuals expressing their personal views on a complicated social issue and defend the presumption of innocence in a court of law. Also, criticize the notion that tougher laws and harsher penalties will stop people from taking drugs.
As long as people are judging this young man in the court of public opinion, I feel I might chime in on how ignorant two of these post's PERSONAL views, on a complicated social issue threatening our society, really are. First of all there is a presumption of innocence in a court of law before any evidence is presented to the jury. I assume it's to limit the amount of innocent people punished for crimes they didn't commit. To state your opinion of guilt after seeing a few sentences in an article, shows how ignorant you are of the rule of law. What if the police had questioned the wrong drunken idiot? And secondly, if the poster who thinks that tougher laws and harsher penalties is going to stop people from taking mind and mood altering substances, then you are deluded. you should go back to sleep and keep dreaming of your squeaky clean sandbox world where everyone conforms to your idea of society. 
 people have been taking drugs for two thousand years and will continue to regardless.