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You cannot refute my point

The burden is on you to support YOUR claim, not on me to refute YOUR claim. As it stands, your claim is unsupported and has no weight.

If you come up with a plan of how narcotics could be legalized without goverment controls and the FDA being involved,or private business being able to control and promote substances,I am listening.

Here's the plan: treat drugs exactly like alcohol.

[Deleted by Rocksalt with no reply:] "I am not advocating goverment controls over our freedoms."

Yes you are---you want the government to continue to restrict our freedom to put what we choose into our own bodies.

Do you concede that you are advocating goverment controls over our freedoms?

Would you also be in favor of abolishing police forces because they interfere with our rights to travel freely?

I favor restricting police to their legitimate duty of protecting individual rights.

Many other conservatives feel this way as well.

But none of them has been able to rationally square this with their professed love of freedom.

"The burden is on you to support YOUR claim, not on me to refute YOUR claim. As it stands, your claim is unsupported and has no weight."

This is from the very first drug resource website I tapped into:www.getgoing.com Drug treatment specialists.

" Yet marijuana is a far less addictive and dangerous drug for most people than cocaine or heroin. These drugs are so pleasurable that for some people, it is not safe to try them even once. Using heroin or cocaine, powdered or crack (rock), even one time causes such intense cravings for some individuals that they use it again and again, rapidly becoming addicted.

Crack is the most highly addictive of all the drugs available because it is smoked and therefore stimulates the brain directly. The high lasts only a few minutes, so the user soon needs more in order to sustain the energized, grandiose, and powerfully euphoric feeling it produces. Some people cannot give that feeling up and sacrifice their jobs or lives to keep using crack. Recreational use of heroin and cocaine, particularly crack, is the way many people get addicted."

Now you tell me how common it is for people to become late stage alcoholics in the same amount of time.

"Here's the plan: treat drugs exactly like alcohol."

That would mean goverment control.ATF,state agencys,etc.You explain how it could be otherwise.

"I favor restricting police to their legitimate duty of protecting individual rights."

And what if this will of course include protecting individual citizens from the crazed speed freaks who will have easy access to it and then turn violent.

I favor legal access for a system of registered addicts,and do not feel it is wise to facillitate narcotics addiction for the general populace.