<i>Illustration: Rocco Fazzari.</i>  Illustration: Rocco
Fazzari.  How much control should we have over our own bodies?
Most of us want to answer ''total'' yet, when good people die
badly from what should be harmless fun, we reach reflexively for
prohibition.  It's not rational. Our hundred-year war on drugs
proves prohibition's most profound effects are the unintended
ones, criminalising culture and condemning innocents. Yet, in
the absence of a more sophisticated response, it's what we do.
Truckie Glenn Punch, 44, was found naked and convulsing in a
Newcastle shipping yard. Two days later he died when his brain
swelled into his neck, choking off its own blood supply.  HSC
student Henry Kwan, fluent in six languages and with hopes of
being a doctor, died when, believing he could fly, he jumped
from the family balcony.  Perth teen Preston Bridge did the
same, falling from a balcony after a school ball in February.
All three had taken ''designer drugs''. Punch had injected a
synthetic amphetamine known as ''