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To: Neocon who wrote (296146)	9/12/2002 1:33:32 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "If I thought it would be confined to the privacy of their own home, I might agree with you." >>> So ban public use. You can ban drinking, or smoking in public... this is no different. Re: "There is a higher rate of abuse with hard drugs than there is with alcohol." >>> Er, NO! >>> Alcohol alone causes more deaths, greater medical costs, more birth deformities and lowered IQs than ALL of the illegal and ALL of the legal prescription drugs added together. >>> Deaths related to alcohol use are also greater than all of the deaths above, and also handgun deaths, murders, etc., added together. >>> Only tobacco causes more annual deaths - and there that might be a social 'benefit' because most of the users die in their later years... which reduces social security and medicare costs. >>> Not so with alcohol. If there is any drug which statistics would argue should be prohibited... it is likely alcohol.