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To: hodaka
hopefully you got rid of that production manager before he killed someone

Yeah, we did. We printed t-shirts and one day he put the red ink where the black was supposed to go and the black where the red was supposed to go and didn't catch it until they had printed over 2000 shirts...

I just feel that if anyone is addicted to any kind of substance that they would be given rehab instead of jail even if the drug of choice is illegal.

What about those who sell illegal drugs? What about those who sell illegal drugs to minors? Decriminalization is a slippery slope...

Remember at one time in this great country of ours alcohol was illegal and pot and coke were legal.

And at one time they marketed cigarettes to pregnant women to keep them from eating too many sweets. From a health basis we've done a lot of stupid things. Doesn't mean we should go back and do them again. Alcohol has been mankind's drug of choice for several millennia. It is so easy to make and so pervasive in our culture that trying to outlaw it was like spitting into the wind. The prohibitionists did have some good points - it is bad for you, it does lead to broken families, it does cost millions if not billions in productivity, but alcohol was/is also so common, so cheap, and so ingrained (pardon the pun) into society that it turned the MAJORITY of Americans into law breakers and THEY overturned it. Remember, Americans voted in Prohibition and they voted it out. I don't see a majority of Americans voting for the legalization of pot and coke any time soon.

50 posted on 05/01/2006 5:48:14 AM PDT by Crusher138
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To: Crusher138
I guess you will have to put in the company of William Buckley, Neal Boortz and others who think that this so called drug war is a wasted effort. Do you think that Rush is the only one that had a out of control prosecutor go after him for his drug addiction. You can always read about folks who have been wrongly convicted or even killed by over zealot prosecutors enforcing these drug laws. Cheers.
51 posted on 05/01/2006 12:08:33 PM PDT by hodaka
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