Umm.
Have you ever driven drunk?
Do you do drugs?
Thin line.
Don't normally hop in on rules threads and such, but this to me is a very valid point.
Tough call though.
The big distinction is that drunk driving isn't specifically prohibited by our rules, but discussion of personal drug use and discussion related to legalization is. It's a long-standing thing.
i hear u hobbsy, but looking at the big picture, driving drunk and using illicit drugs are both illegal. to me, they are in the same category.
Yeah, like I said, the only major difference is that one is specifically disallowed. We've had a lot more problems with people talking about how drugs are cool and taking threads off-topic, than we have about alcohol use.
That being said, I basically agree with what Redz said, in that sharing personal stories of drunk driving is similar to sharing stories about drug use. There's a difference, but not a huge one.
Obviously, though, the argument that "you allowed one, so you have to allow the other" is not a persuasive one. Discussions of drug use are specifically prohibited by our rules, and we have to enforce them as written. The ban on discussion of drug use / legalization of drugs is a long-standing rule, and one we've enforced clearly in the past.
Another thing: I know people get offended whenever there threads are locked. However, we can't play favorites, we can't keep threads up because we think they're interesting, and we can't decline to lock a thread because somebody has put a lot of work into them. If a topic is prohibited by the rules, we're not going to allow it.