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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Colleen M who wrote (18080)	5/4/2000 12:21:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (3) of 769667

Since I don't agree with your premise that most people would be engaged in drug misuse ... I won't speculate on tax effect, be it source or drain. People have been living for thousands of years with alcohol, tobacco, opium, coca. Always there were some abusers, but entire societies didn't get sucked into a vortex ... except where external social pressures were applied, like the opium wars or setting up aborigines on rocky soil with beer their only solace. I consider the idea that legalizing drugs would bury us in a tidal wave of desperate welfare cases to be alarmist. People differ in their interest in, and susceptibility to, the intoxicants. Imo two of the most addictive - alcohol and tobacco - are already legal. There are social costs; I won't pretend everything is peachy. But imo it would be, and was, worse when prohibition was imposed.

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