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To: robertpaulsen
Now, as a return favor, could you please support your statement, "In case you didn't notice it, this ban isn't working either."

I never did respond to this...

Right now I guarantee that I can go to any city in the US with a population of about 30,000 or more and by asking just a few questions (the first of which I'd feel perfectly comfortable asking a cop) I could find out where to go to safely buy just about any illicit drug I would want (not that I want any.) These drugs would be cheaper and stronger than they would have been back when your data starts.

I call that a failure, regardless of what your data shows. BTW, picking an extreme as an endpoint won't make you a friend of many statisticians.

435 posted on 09/22/2004 7:09:18 AM PDT by green iguana
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To: green iguana
"Right now I guarantee that I can go to any city in the US with a population of about 30,000 or more and by asking just a few questions ... I could find out where to go to ______________"

You can fill that blank with just about any illegal activity from prostitution to murder-for-hire.

You set up this straw man (the drug ban isn't working) just to knock it down with your simplistic statement above. As I said to you before, you sure do know how to set the bar high.

Drugs are illegal. Over a period of time (not an extreme endpoint), we have seen the usage of drug decline. That cannot be denied. My conclusion is that the program is working.

438 posted on 09/22/2004 8:30:40 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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