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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (76918)4/5/2000 8:33:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
>but that's about driving, not about drugs. Different issue.<

If you agree to disregard the moral argument against drugs, i.e. they're evil or something, the issues converge imo. Why restrict access to drugs? "Because they're dangerous." How does this danger manifest itself? "People on drugs do stuff like run into trees or walk off rooves." What's the easiest way to reduce this behavior? "Make drugs unavailable."
Or alternatively "Restrict public behavior while intoxicated - drive drug use indoors". More equitable solution imo but harder to legislate.

A more compelling argument to remove some drugs from easy availability is that those drugs tend to cause a compelling addiction that ruins lives and makes the addicts do destructive and dangerous things to get more drugs. I admit some people follow this script, and they seem to serve as cautionary examples. But it is very difficult to get straight, unbiased info on how severe or likely the danger of addiction is for each substance, and for each person. And it is impossible to hold a national dialogue on whether decriminalizing drugs of abuse would lead to a social crisis or would make the social crisis disappear - by removing the addict's need to steal or whore in order to feed a nasty habit.
I don't pretend to have answers. But maybe chewing on the questions isn't a total waste of time.
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