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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: skinowski who wrote (254845)6/18/2008 9:09:51 AM
From: alanrs  Read Replies (4) of 793800
 
Good arguments, and I don't have good answers.

One would hope that the large variety of other activities that absorb human beings would continue to have a draw. In the end, I believe this is fighting an element of human nature and I generally believe that is counter productive. Drugs are not that much fun so as to lead to a zombie populace, although with the onslaught of perfectly legal anti-depressants, who knows?

My belief, and it is my belief only, is that some people who otherwise would not have, will. My further belief is that the damage done by the 'war on drugs' far exceeds this down side, and that a small portion of the money saved could be set aside to provide a wide variety of abuse facilities. Got to put all those unemployed drug warriors to work somewhere.

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