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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: hobo who wrote (824)	1/12/2001 9:44:01 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm sorry, that was joke. I don't believe we should be involved in regulation of such practices. I was being funny but I failed. If people want something because it feels good, or they have other reasons for wanting it (illicit eroticism, for instance ) then it is going to be very hard to cut that demand. I don't believe the police should be "outing" Johns personally or taking people's vehicles or other property without due process. It smacks of witch hunts. There are addictive substances that are so powerful that once people use them, they no longer have the ability to stop with the emotional resources they have. This is going to be very hard to regulate from a legal and moral point of view. Many substances that are on one of the DEA's hit lists have legitimate legal use, but docs have been intimidated into not prescribing it. Heroine for example is the best pain killer we have. It is unconscionable to not all terminal cancer patients to have easy access to this. The decriminalization of substance use and criminalization of commercial supply has not been the best way to limit new customers, IMO. If it was easy to fix, it would have been fixed by now. Instead, it ends up being a bottomless pit of prosecution and interdiction. There are clearly both civil liberty issues AND public health issues involved. I don't think filling federal prisons with pot-dealers makes much sense.