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To: one_less who wrote (77095)	4/6/2000 7:51:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

There are lines to be drawn; I won't dispute that. I prefer to draw them as loosely as possible, but that's a purely personal preference. With drugs in particular, I think that the whole issue has been badly muddled by "Reefer Madness" propaganda and by a good degree of pure denial. I spent many years in the drug scene, and I can tell you that the young people I saw consume themselves with drugs were inevitably people who had serious problems before they ever took drugs. A lot of these problems had to do with basic parental neglect. Some parents will tell you that Junior was just fine until some pusher talked him into taking a puff on a joint, then suddenly he was an addict. That's bullshit. Any parent who doesn't realize that their kid is doing dope until the kid is hooked doesn't need to look very far to see why their kid was abusing dope in the first place.

To: one_less who wrote (77095)	4/6/2000 8:05:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

brees, it's not merely the "victimless" thing. I actually do agree with you that we are a community, you know. (Even Terry would agree, at least in his behavior in his personal life.) However, I feel deep concern when there is an effort to enforce or to ban certain behaviors "for a person's own good." There is something ludicrous in its being illegal, for example, to commit suicide. I can understand banning jumping out of windows in densely populated areas, where you could land on someone else and kill the person. Do I think that suicide is a good thing? Hell, no! I'd do my level best to try to dissuade someone who did not have a damned good reason, such as intolerable pain from a terminal illness. However, eventually, the decision to live or die should belong to the individual.