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To: joseffy who wrote (263190)7/22/2010 5:32:15 PM
From: alanrsRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
Recently there was a woman killed (shot) in a clothing store here in Chicago. Sometimes people get shot by/in/on a grocery store, a church, a gas station, a bank, the woods, the beach, their home.

I know you prefer the current system of millions of non-violent offenders doing time while law enforcement and drug gangs make large sums of money (all paid for by you, in the first case through taxes and in the second through insurance premiums).

I know you prefer the current system whereby if you have a job with insurance or a family with enough money for a lawyer, substance abuse is a medical issue, but if you don't it's a criminal issue.

However, pointing out that someone was shot at a marijuana dispensary isn't an effective argument for criminalization.

And nobody claims that legalizing drugs would lead to heaven on earth, so stop kicking that straw man, por favor.

ARS
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