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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (8138)12/30/2005 1:24:52 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (5) of 541274
 
I'd like to see some real attention to paid to drugs- and let's decriminalize them- to take the payback out of the system.

Let's just say we do decriminalize drugs.

Then what?

Are the people who steal now to get them, suddenly going to have the money to buy them?

Or will they keep stealing and killing to get the money for them?

What about the after effects of the drugs....? Things like rape and murder for their victims?

What about the cost of the effects of the drugs...i.e. meth mouth? or Hep A, B, C, D, etc.... If they are legalized, who is going to pay for the medical effects and problems of the now-legal drugs?

For starters...
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