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To: Reagan Man
The War on Drugs is a War against our own people. It is inhumane to lock up drug users in jails where they are beaten and raped. In any war, the first casualty is always the truth, and War is Hell, right, so inncents might get shot in a drug-raid-gone-wrong, oops, sorry 'bout yer family.

If every drug were illegal, then say goodbye to coffee and COCA-cola, vitamins and Free Prescription Drug schemes for selfish senior citizens. I think Prohibition should have taught us about gangsters, but the streets in my hood were washed with blood in Capone-style drivebys in the 80's and 90's. There's dozens more reasons why legalization is more civilized, personal liberty and responsibility chief among them, not to mention the Biblical arguments.

6 posted on 04/01/2002 10:01:43 PM PST by Darheel
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7 posted on 04/01/2002 10:08:16 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP
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To: Darheel
The National Drug Control Strategy is working well and targets people who want to distribute drugs, profit from drug sales and ingest illegal drugs. That includes drug kingpins and local drug dealers. The NDCS isn't aimed at law abiding citizens.

Across the board drug legalization has minuscule support here in the US. Unlike, the cavalier approach that most Europeans take towards drug use, Americans understand the destructive and immoral nature of the beast. Americans also understand how hard core drugs, ravage the minds of users over time, especially the developing intellectual and emotional capacity of our children.

If you expect drugs, like cocaine, heroin and marijuana, to be legalized here in America, you're fooling yourself. Americans continue to support intervention and incarceration, to counter illicit drug use. The government has increasingly included treatment as the third part of their drug control strategy. Treatment is a humanitarian effort, offered to any drug user desiring to break their drug habit. But if treatment doesn't work, prison is the only justified alternative left. You do the crime, you pay the time.

From your post at #3, its clear one thing that motivates your support for drug legalization. And don't try and deny the inferences you've made.

10 posted on 04/02/2002 12:22:35 PM PST by Reagan Man
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To: Darheel
this is your brain on drugs.
49 posted on 04/05/2002 8:19:33 AM PST by estpeter
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