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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I’ve talked with addicts - very frankly. I’ve talked with folks like you, who have had addicts in their immediate family.

Rehab doesn’t have a high success rate - for a variety of reasons. I’m not sure what the right answer is, but I seriously doubt it is making heroin more available and more widely used through less enforcement/decriminalization. I don’t have to tell you what it does to people.

It’s easier (and there are fewer repercussions) for a kid in high school to get heroin than a 6-pack of beer.

I think we need to decriminalize beer before we decriminalize heroin.


156 posted on 01/20/2015 1:20:56 PM PST by RFEngineer
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To: RFEngineer
It’s easier (and there are fewer repercussions) for a kid in high school to get heroin than a 6-pack of beer.

Of course, because dealers don't card - only in a legal regulated market can age restrictions be enforced.

158 posted on 01/20/2015 1:26:41 PM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: RFEngineer
It’s easier (and there are fewer repercussions) for a kid in high school to get heroin than a 6-pack of beer.

That is a blatant and bald-faced Libertarian lie. It is nonsense on the face of it.

165 posted on 01/20/2015 1:43:40 PM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: RFEngineer

Yep. What you said. You have to WANT to kick your bad habits.


180 posted on 01/20/2015 3:12:26 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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