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To: jmacusa
Does that include the cigarette manufacturers and the alcohol manufacturers too?

Alcohol and tobacco are not illegal. Neither is Marijuana in many localities. I define a drug dealer as someone who deals in illegal drugs, a smuggler as one who transports illegal drugs.

Legalizing all drugs might actually do some good, with a couple of stipulations. First, when marijuana or other drugs are legal and people CHOOSE to use them and toke, inject or ingest themselves into befuddled unemployability, the addiction is renamed a disease and the addicts become public charges. That's already happened with alcohol. Making me pay for another's bad choices? Not acceptable.

When they OD, considerable resources are expended to save them. Triage all the calls, with those as lowest priority. Fewer undesirables remaining, eventually.

13 posted on 10/05/2021 11:02:23 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed
We think alike in many ways. Drug dealers are indeed criminals. Addicts however aren't. For those who commit crimes under the influence there's AA in jail. Addiction should never be an excuse for criminality. Booze damn near killed me. February of next year will mark 32 years sober for me.
14 posted on 10/05/2021 12:02:31 PM PDT by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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