[Kevin Curry]

Marijuana, Burns writes in the letter, is not harmless but has risen as a factor in emergency room visits 176 percent since 1994, surpassing heroin.[emphasis added]

Emergency rooms are the most expensive form of medicine there is. The dopers who end up there don't pay the full tabs or even a substantial portion of the tabs for these visits. Other people do, whether as taxpayers or via increased insurance premiums.

Dopers and socialism go together like screws and nuts.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

The dopers who end up there don't pay the full tabs or even a substantial portion of the tabs for these visits. Other people do, whether as taxpayers or via increased insurance premiums.

Your proof?

[jayef]

Hook, line, sinker.

[TBall]

"Marijuana, Burns writes in the letter, is not harmless but has risen as a factor in emergency room visits 176 percent since 1994,surpassing heroin.[emphasis added]" It would be helpful if they included the actual numbers that make up the percentages. In 1994 were there 10,000 emergency room visits and now there are over 25,000 per year?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Kevin, socialism and trying to control people goes together like screws and nuts. You claim that money is the reason you oppose the legalization of drugs. What if a law were passed that prevented public money from being used to treat dopers? Would you support it then?

[OWK]

Dopers and socialism go together like screws and nuts.

When did you start smoking dope?