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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (240560)5/14/2003 10:40:30 AM
From: Earlie  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
WF:

I hate drugs with a passion (from earlier loss of a couple of great students) and I consider smoking anything to be about the wierdest self-administered stupidity I've ever seen, but as was the case with booze in the prohibition era, and highway speeding laws today, if 90% of the population doesn't think a "law" makes sense, it becomes non-enforceable.

Take a look at the remarkable percentage of the US population that is incarcerated (an inordinate percentage of which is drug-related) and consider the staggering costs of this to your society. Better to bring it under the aegis of government regulation, legitimize it, and tax the heck out of it (as is the case with tobacco and booze). Kills two birds with one stone. And if a small percentage of the bucks currently spent on drug busting were to be diverted and spent on educating our young people on the topic, we might even see useage fall somewhat. JMHO.

I think your leaders ought to pay a bit of attention to this Canuck.

Best, Earlie
Best, Earlie
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