Listen to this. It’s the most striking testimony to the tragedy of Whitney Houston’s decline and fall from drug addiction: the unaided voice track from her monster hit “How Will I Know?”, recorded in her prime.

Gawker reports that Tony Bennett said Houston’s death shows that we ought to legalize drugs. Huh? Would Houston not have drugged herself to death if her substance of choice had been legally obtainable? By this logic, legalizing alcohol has led to fewer alcoholics. And as Gawker points out, Amy Winehouse drank herself to death, and Michael Jackson died from drugs he had legally been prescribed. Maybe Tony was drunk when he reached this dim conclusion.