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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8553)	1/9/2006 2:33:17 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 541326

I may come back to your detailed list of questions tomorrow if I am feeling philosophical. It's too late here to go into each point. My one point now is that the argument of us encouraging permissiveness is moot - anyone who wants to use drugs can and probably does use them whenever they like. A small percentage end up in the criminal justice system, but the drug culture exists largely untouched and "permitted" de facto if not de jure. One more point - some drugs are addictive (heroin and cocaine) while others are not, like marijuana, mushrooms, hashish and probably others. I did a lot of non-addictive drugs in college with non-criminal fellow students and never felt the slightest urge to cross the gateway to harder stuff, despite the ease with which I could have. Just one data point.

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