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To: Prokopton

When the drug effects volition, legislation and discrimination of that drug is appropriate.

Expressed another way, if the drug causes harm and its use causes addiction, such that a person is no longer has liberty to decide not to take the drug, then removing restraint from its access condones the removal of liberty.


98 posted on 05/06/2011 3:42:13 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Cvengr

In the 19th century, most of this stuff was legal. Laudanum (as one example) was highly abused and rampant in this country. There was a reason a 100 years ago our country did this.


101 posted on 05/06/2011 4:02:51 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: Cvengr

Keep your Nanny State hands off my coffee.


108 posted on 05/06/2011 6:56:45 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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