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To: Know your rights
Do you have any proof for that claim?

Yes. The increase of drug abuse and its attendant rise in crimes of property, violence and murder since the passage of the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1983 and the end of institutionalizing the mentally ill. This act was the beginning of the phenomenon known as the "60's" and all its attendant evils since then. Especially drugs and drug violence and smuggling. The Heroin poppies that now grow in the fields of Afghanistan, can be traced to the policy of letting the mentally ill to live in the streets.

Look, I know you enjoy your pot, and as long as you don't encourage others who do not smoke now to smoke with you, I don't personally care what you do. But the fact remains that many people who are now in prison or homeless on the street is due to the lack of treatment of their mental illness and their introduction to, and the use of, illegal drugs.

469 posted on 12/26/2005 9:50:29 AM PST by elbucko
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To: elbucko
it does nothing to prove your claim that most people who seek to share drugs are mentally ill. Do you have any proof for that claim?

Yes. The increase of drug abuse and its attendant rise in crimes of property, violence and murder since the passage of the Community Mental Health Centers Act

You're getting somewhat closer to proof, but still a long way to go ... now if you can show that the numerical increase in drug users is not substantially larger than the number of persons released by that act, we'll have something to talk about. Otherwise you'll have failed to account for the former number.

470 posted on 12/26/2005 11:06:43 AM PST by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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