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To: laredo44
And even if drugs were legally purchased, you'd just be creating more skunky millionaires like the Coors family or the Levi bunch. And the problem with this is? Do you not like free market Capitalism?

I'm a big fan of the free market. I guess that point would have been better stated that drug money making empires rubs me wrong. But then, so does Tom Hanks or Harrison Ford getting $20 mill to make a movie, when a single cop or a fireman is worth ten times those silly Hollywood dorks. But I wouldn't change the system, I'd try to change the hearts of people.

554 posted on 08/02/2002 10:13:03 AM PDT by Scourge of God
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To: Scourge of God
I'd try to change the hearts of people.

My approach as well because attempting to legislate away personal choice causes way, way more problems than drug use ever would. Education, persuasion, appeal to reason work. Telling people, "Because I say so," usually has exactly the opposite result of what was intended.

635 posted on 08/02/2002 12:18:01 PM PDT by laredo44
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