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To: balch3

Drug USE isn’t a criminal problem no more than alcohol USE is.

Does throwing a drug USER in jail really accomplish anything, other than wasting tax payer’s money? Addiction is more like a disease than anything else. We were stupid for criminalizing addictions.

I don’t know if I’ve ever agreed with the Administration on anything, but this might come close, because it makes sense. I haven’t seen the ‘fine print’ though.


113 posted on 01/28/2015 1:07:31 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: KoRn
Addiction is more like a disease than anything else. We were stupid for criminalizing addictions.

I wish people who think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence would actually *LOOK* at the grass on the other side of the Fence. Back in the Early 1900s, we criminalized drugs. Back in the 1840s, China Legalized drugs. China got wrecked 60-70 years later. We are still going strong.

Drug usages skyrocketed until by the early 1900s, half her population was addicted to opium.

I don’t know if I’ve ever agreed with the Administration on anything, but this might come close, because it makes sense.

I disagree. This Administration has a near perfect record of idiocy, and this is just more of the same idiocy they are good at. This opinion is based on a superficial understanding of the issue, and the claims don't hold up when subjected to rigid scrutiny.

If you bet Obama is always wrong, you won't go far off.

140 posted on 01/28/2015 1:48:01 PM PST by DiogenesLamp
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