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To: wideawake
In the case of crack, as opposed to aluminum siding and DVDs, we have a product which quickly erodes the freedom of the purchaser with each subsequent purchase.

If it can be shown that fraud occurred in the transaction, the perpetrator of that fraud should be dealt with.

BTW, tobacco falls under the same definition you just gave. Are you in favor of making it illegal as well?

88 posted on 09/16/2004 8:04:07 AM PDT by Protagoras (Free speech should never be tampered with, AT ALL.)
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To: Protagoras
BTW, tobacco falls under the same definition you just gave. Are you in favor of making it illegal as well?

I know many tobacco users.

None of them have ever been arrested for breaking into someone's apartment, or mugging someone on the street, or carjacking someone or beating up their own elderly parents in order to get money to buy cigarettes.

I have known people addicted to caffeine, to nicotine and to cocaine. The first two groups are inconvenienced by their addiction, the latter group (and often their families and loved ones) are destroyed by it.

95 posted on 09/16/2004 8:07:50 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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