To: Kenton
I've seen more lives destroyed by alcohol than by pot.Because alcohol is legal. Making anything legal removes the 'stigma' as it were, and use will increase.
64 posted on
11/02/2005 10:03:53 AM PST by
MEGoody
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To: MEGoody
Because alcohol is legal. Making anything legal removes the 'stigma' as it were, and use will increase. Oh, no doubt about that. Also because alcohol has been our societal "drug of choice" for centuries. But I was talking more about the social and physical devastation that accompanies alcoholism, which is on a par with abuse of the "harder" drugs like cocaine and heroin.
65 posted on
11/02/2005 10:14:13 AM PST by
Kenton
(Muslims want to play by "girls' rules")
To: MEGoody
Making anything legal removes the 'stigma' as it were, and use will increase.Quite possibly. But we rightly decided that the self-harms done by drinkers were outweighed by the harms of Prohibition ... and we should be similarly wise regarding marijuana.
82 posted on
11/02/2005 3:35:29 PM PST by
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