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To: Neocon who wrote (253646)	5/8/2002 1:25:23 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Sorry, "regular users" can hold a great many meanings. I've heard of some interesting studies(but I can't find one now on-line) that indicate the delivery method of cocaine (& perhaps even methamphetamine) has a lot to do with addiction rates.

To: Neocon who wrote (253646)	5/8/2002 2:06:54 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Addiction is the great superstition of modern times, replacing pagan worship, fertility rituals, human and animal sacrifice, and many other manifestations of collective ignorance that have plagued humanity since it began. "It's addictive", is the last refuge of a drug-prohibition scoundral when he/she loses the obvious argument that the laws are prohibitively expensive and wrong-headed. Addiction is in neither substance nor activity. Addiction is, purely and simply, between the ears. Addiction applies to any human activity: work, political activism, food consumption-you name it, and I'll find you addicts. I once spent and evening in a California bar watching Fooseball addicts fix. Tell me you can't ruin your life with obsession. The sole effect of drug prohibition is to chase a massive market underground where it cannot be regulated. There are many opponents of drug legalization who are, in a word, addicted to their cause...