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To: Skywatcher who wrote (188521)10/2/2001 11:50:20 PM
From: PROLIFE  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
I am not holier than thou about alcohol. I have a couple beers a year myself. BUt no one gets in my car that has any open container. No one drives me anywhere if they have been drinking, so don't say I cannot think about it. I do. I think it is horrible that we allow these deaths in our country and that they are evidently acceptable deaths and acceptable collateral damage. If it was not, then the law has only to sit outside most bars at closing and load the paddywagon.

cheap booze and cheap ciggys have not cured the problem even though legal, how do you expect legal heroin will be better??



To: Skywatcher who wrote (188521)10/3/2001 12:19:32 AM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
What makes you think that the damage to society from legal opium and cocaine wouldn't be more than ethanol or tobacco? And Given the current legal atmosphere (tobacco smoker lawsuits), who in the world would want to market and manufacturer narcotics(for non medical consumption).

The truth is that if cigarettes were a new product, the FDA would probably never allowed it to be sold in the U.S..


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