To: Willie Green
"Zinging" may be a fun way for you to get your rocks off but it doesn't demonstrate intelligence. If you ever bothered to examine the FACTS around the War on Drug-users, you'd see that it simply does not and cannot work and tragically ruins millions of lives.
Only a few "off-the-scale-libertarians" want to see a completely free and unfettered drug market. Most of us want to see the same sensible regulation of those drugs now considered "illicit" as we have for alcohol and prescription drugs.
Personally, I haven't used a street drug for thirty years and have no desire to ever do so again. I've been both an addict and a counsellor of addicts, so I've seen all sides of the issue, including the deaths of friends. Drug use IS a problem! BUT, we need a sensible system that actually works WITH human nature, not AGAINST it. We must elicit respect for the law and societal mores while de-glamorizing drug use by removing it from the fringes. Doing so can solve the problem without creating even larger ones.
262 posted on
10/08/2002 1:22:29 PM PDT by
FrankC
To: FrankC
Most of us want to see the same sensible regulation of those drugs now considered "illicit" as we have for alcohol and prescription drugs. We already have "sensible" regulation.
Unlike alcohol and prescription drugs, there are no legitimate uses for those substances that are banned.
Their abuse is merely for the purpose of self-destructive behavior.
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