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To: ChildOfThe60s
Answer to that would be how do we define non addicted drug users?

As far alcohol is concerned, and drug users for that matter, if they have not become a legal problem, as committing crimes and such, or being homeless and living on the streets etcetera, I don’t care.

Sounds like you've answered your own question: a working definition of nonaddicted is not committing crimes or living on the street. I heartily agree that such users should be left alone - and that imprisonment is not the right answer for addicted users.

125 posted on 12/28/2019 6:01:05 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree

From one of the Kink’s best LPs, Muswell Hillbillies:

Alcohol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea-MVgC_jz4

{Now I wanna tell you a little story
About the old demon alcohol
Yes indeed my little chickadee}

[Verse 1]
Here is a story about a sinner
He used to be a winner
Who enjoyed a life of prominence and position
But the pressures at the office and his socialite engagements
And his selfish wife’s fanatical ambition

It turned him to the booze
And he got mixed up with a floosie
And she led him to a life of indecision
The floosie made him spend his dough
She left him lying on Skid Row
A drunken lag in some Salvation Army Mission
It’s such a shame

[Chorus]
Oh demon alcohol
Sad memories I can’t recall
Who thought I would say
Damn it all and blow it all

Oh demon alcohol
Memories I can’t recall
Who thought I would fall
A slave to demon alcohol

Sad memories I can’t recall
Who thought I would fall
A slave to demon alcohol

[Verse 2]
Barley wine, pink gin
He’ll drink anything
Port, pernod or tequila
Rum, scotch, vodka on the rocks
As long as all his troubles disappeared

But he messed up his life when he beat up his wife
And the floosie’s gone and found another sucker
She’s gonna turn him on to drink
She’s gonna lead him to the brink
And when his money’s gone
She’ll leave him in the gutter
It’s such a shame

{Instrumental - brass}

[Chorus]
Oh demon alcohol
Sad memories I can’t recall
Who thought I would fall
Damn it all, low, low

Sad memories I can’t recall
Who thought I would fall
A slave to demon alcohol


133 posted on 12/28/2019 5:19:07 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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