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To: cryptical
"Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would accomplish so much to promote law and order?"

Yes. We could legalize drunk driving. Arrest the drunk driver only if he harms someone or damages property. Drunk driving, like drug use, harms no one. Right?

7 posted on 10/05/2007 7:36:07 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen; cryptical
Yes. We could legalize drunk driving. Arrest the drunk driver only if he harms someone or damages property. Drunk driving, like drug use, harms no one. Right?

Some people are just to damn dumb for words to describe. Drunk driving harms other people, dying from an overdose only hurts the user, this includes an overdose of alcohol, which is called alcohol poisoning.

Prohibition should have taught us all that we make a problem worse when we outlaw substances. What a person chooses to put into their body is their business. I don't do drugs and I never will, but I do drink alcohol(which is a type of drug)and I spit on any government attempts to try to take that right to drink it away from me.

We need LESS government not more. Outlawing drugs has caused the culture we see now, it has made drugs very profitable and they will continue to be profitable, financing the gangs and illegal activities of drug loads. As far as confiscating a citizens property without due process, this is unconstitutional and should be stopped immediately. They have started confiscating cars in one state for smoking cigarettes bought across the line in another state and brought back into the home state, why? Because they have vilified cigs to the point where many people view them as worse than heroin or cocaine, so they figure they can get away with it, because it is "for the children"(or put your own slogan here)don't you know.

Legalizing drugs, as they use to be in this country, would cause no higher incident of drug use than we have now, it would eliminate it from being sold to children because the money would go out of it. Drug induced crime would virtually stop overnight. Believe it or not, I don't care, but if you continue in your present beliefs you need to seriously have something done about your brain, it has a leak somewhere.

21 posted on 10/05/2007 8:08:34 AM PDT by calex59
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To: robertpaulsen
We could legalize drunk driving. Arrest the drunk driver only if he harms someone or damages property.

I know you were being sarcastic, but I would be inclined to agree with that position. If they do cause harm, be it to people or property, they will be punished, if a blood test shows that the driver was intoxicated, then the judge may use his or her discretion to impose a harsher sentence.
89 posted on 10/05/2007 10:43:08 AM PDT by MinnesotaLibertarian
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To: robertpaulsen

Sober drivers kill more people than drunk drivers do.

Shouldn’t we do something to combat sober drivers?


110 posted on 10/05/2007 11:55:15 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (If you agree with Democrats you agree with America's enemies.)
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