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To: TheKidster
A person would have to be irresponsible to begin with to want to use recreational drugs.
True, they can make the choice to break the laws, but in the process they try to push the drugs for others to try, they often bring concerns if not outright grief to their families and the health costs they may leave to the public tax dollars also affects everyone else.

If they want to buy their own island and kill themselves, so be it.
If they want to live among others, don’t do the drugs and obey the laws. There is no right to put others at risk for a good buzz.

120 posted on 07/10/2007 11:14:36 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy
If we were having this discussion in NYC it could go this way. I'm using this to illustrate the point that prohibition creates more problems than it was intended to solve, which is hasn't.

True, they can make the choice to break the laws, but in the process they try to push the Transfats for others to try, they often bring concerns if not outright grief to their families and the health costs they may leave to the public tax dollars also affects everyone else. If they want to buy their own island and kill themselves, so be it.
If they want to live among others, don’t over eat transfat saturated food in resturants and obey the laws. There is no right to put others at risk for a good meal.

The federal government has no right to tell the individual what substances they can or cannot injest. This should at most be done at the local level by city councels, similar to booze and dry counties.

You rush to give your power and liberty to the federal government for a false promise and people like me are trying to tell you that you've made a deal with the devil. You can't win, you can't get your power or liberty back and you've helped mine to be stolen as well. You set a precedent to prohibit substances on some moral ground but morals change in politics, they change as often as money changes hands.

The only thing you are currently supporting is a federally enforced black market monopoly on some narcotics and the militarization of our local police forces. Not a good thing to support, unless you trust government to be objective, and free of corruption. In reality, check the tagline

122 posted on 07/10/2007 11:31:44 AM PDT by TheKidster (you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
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