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To: longnshort who wrote (2478)	3/18/2007 2:32:20 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) of 25737

"yeah no citizens are killed and robbed by drug addicts" You need to separate out the EFFECTS of governmental Prohibition/Criminalization from the effects of the substance at issue.... The two are not the same. For example: in the absence of official prohibition, HOW MANY 'citizens are killed or robbed' today by tobacco addicts? Yet, were tobacco's use to be criminalized, no doubt the prices would rise, criminals would take over the markets (because of the good profits to be made), and violence and robberies and deaths and turf wars to control the illegal tobacco markets would rise. The problems you point to are largely a creation of the law, a normal result of prohibition and governmental hubris.

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