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To: eims2000 who wrote (77731)	6/12/2002 8:29:35 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

>>>I was curious about that drug / medical issue thing also. Are we actually supposed to pick up the tab for the drug users?<<< Your answer you is better viewed from examining how much it costs to actually wage a failed Drug War. Didn't you read any of the references I provided, i.e., the high costs of paying, equipping and training local, state federal and military policing; the high costs of building prisons instead of schools; the high costs of herding masses through a now long delayed court system; the higher costs for property insurance, as folks make insurance claims when property gets stolen or damaged by addicts, the high costs of concessions granted to foreign governments in order to induce them to participate in our Drug War; the high costs of allowing domestic and international mafias to gain economic and social strength from eliciting profits and turf influence from distributing drugs; the high costs list goes on and on and on. My friend, you already are paying up the Wahzoo. Better to invoke a policy of harm reduction. In other words, reduce the harms that will happen from something that's going to happen whether their legal or not. Study after study has shown that treatment and education is the most effective weapon in the War on Drugs. So I say make all drugs legal, inexpensive and available to those who wish to use them. Under the current system anyone who wants drugs can get them and this will always be the case so long as a strong profit incentive exists for selling 'em. The primary difference from a system of legalization would be the government would get the revenues from sales instead of the mob. I think it's shameful for government to assume its citizens will make the wrong choice and destroy their lives. For example, you could do drugs today but you probably don't because you have a considered opinion about your life. If drugs were legal, this would not change: You would still would have a considered opinion about your life; and so would other folks!

To: eims2000 who wrote (77731)	6/12/2002 9:46:11 AM
From: CRUZ	Respond to of 122087

eims2000, " I was curious about that drug / medical issue thing also. Are we actually supposed to pick up the tab for the drug users? " I think we already are " picking up the tab" with the government's impotent "war on drugs". It's a tough one no doubt, (the legalization issue)along with that comes an implied condonement. I have no solutions...it's a befuddler. I'm still stuck on "The government's too big thing." It's failed & foddered bureaucratic administration of so many programs. If the " big government to the rescue" macro programs didn't exist, we the people would identify and respond to our neighbor's needs at a more local personal level. Cruz