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To: epicure who wrote (76986)	4/6/2000 12:34:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

A powerful force that will always oppose relaxing drug laws is the moral horror thing. There's a lot of calvinist and Puritan still built into our political system. If we only oppose an identified evil long and hard enough - it will go away. ...Some of these people probably think that the Pill (birth control, not morphine sulfate) is the tool of Satan.

To: epicure who wrote (76986)	4/6/2000 1:29:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Respond to of 108807

Not only is it not working; mandatory sentencing seems to have created some real horror shows in terms of imprisonment.

To: epicure who wrote (76986)	4/6/2000 2:39:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<Every American should be ashamed by that- a society that is imprisoning that many people is FAILING, and must be changed.>> I doubt that you would find anyone to disagree with this statement. I don't believe changing the penal system or what is legal or not would alter this fact. When society allows the actions of a lying, rapist to not only go unchecked but to be the model of SUCCESS, tweeking the systems isn't going to do much. The conscience of the typical American needs to be raised in this regard. When personal failure in decent behavior is seen as part of the formula for success in the world nothing is going to change.