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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (648677)	3/23/2012 5:39:39 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) of 1582879

I hear Whitney Houston was killed because cocaine was illegal. What a terrible tragedy that was ... and entirely preventable, if only the s--t she was putting in her body was made legal. Where's the logic in THAT? The outcome for her could hardly have been WORSE if coke had been legal! What if some of the 10s, perhaps 100s of billions spent annually on this nonsense "drug war" had been allocated to mandatory treatment programs? At least then, she might have had a fighting chance. P.S. - If you use or deal in illegal narcotics, you shouldn't complain if you find yourself staring down the barrel of a gun. Perhaps, but what is the sense in exposing 14-year olds to drugs anyway? Wouldn't it be far better to sell pot in convenience stores, where it could be regulated and controlled? Any school kid today will tell you it is easier to buy pot than it is to buy alcohol. And it has been that way for at least 35 years, but it is far more accessible today than when the drug war started. At some point one has to weigh the damage being done by the law enforcement process against damage that might be done by decriminalization. Portugal is the oft-cited example, where marijuana use by teens has GONE DOWN since decriminalization. Which totally makes sense: It is less available to them. This is not to mention the corrupting influence this nonsense has on our law enforcement and criminal courts systems. And not to mention the erosion of our constitutional rights that has occurred as a result of it. If making drugs illegal would solve this problem or even make a dent in it, we wouldn't have an epidemic of opiate addiction in this country today. Most of those who are addicted to Oxycontin have no place to turn for treatment. There is a kid in my neighborhood who I caught stealing stuff out of my garage. I can honestly say he is a "good kid". But he's a drug addict. Drug addicts steal. He didn't WANT to steal from me; but he cannot afford a treatment program and without it, he has no other option. The mentality that drug addicts are "bad people" is just ignorant, and that's the ignorance that politicians exhibit on this issue daily. Drug addicts are just like some people have diabetes. They need treatment, not prison. And without treatment they will die.

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