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To: freeus who wrote (2495)	4/25/1999 11:13:00 PM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (1) of 13062

Arizona is taking some very active steps in the right direction with its drug treatment vs. imprisonment approach. While outright legalization would be preferable, Arizona has found that the cost of putting drug abusers into rehab, as opposed to jail, is 1/2 what it would be. Pretty soon (as the abusers continue to abuse, and the #s don't change radically), they'll discover what we've known - that legalization makes everybody happier. It will reduce the prison population, reduce the cost to taxpayers, and they'll still have the same % of abusers. Now, if the # of abusers does change radically, and declines...well, I won't fight a program that works (at some level). But I have my doubts.

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