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To: PapaNew

But the drugs aren’t free, whether they’re legal or not. Some scumbags will still be breaking into people’s homes, carjacking your family, mugging you on the street to get money for drugs. Drug addicts don’t suddenly go get jobs when certain drugs become legal.


21 posted on 02/04/2014 3:02:19 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: rabidralph

Better to have your door kicked in by armed police than armed criminals! that’s fur sure!
“RAID FILMED: Ankeny Police ‘Traumatize’ Family”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3119179/posts


31 posted on 02/04/2014 3:27:55 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: rabidralph
No, again, the argument is not that repealing drug laws suddenly creates a panacea. The argument is that drug laws do more harm than good much like prohibition did more harm than good. There are a lot of problems in this world and drugs is one of them. The knee-jerk, "pass a law, let government fix it" many times makes matters worse. This is an example.

Of course if a druggie harms another, then he should be prosecuted. The issue is laws that prevent an adult from his private activity that does not interfere with another's freedom. Those kinds of laws are fundamentally unjust and create bigger problems than the activity itself.

37 posted on 02/04/2014 4:02:18 PM PST by PapaNew
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