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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (296451)	9/13/2002 12:34:33 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I thing some provisions of the drug laws are too harsh. I disagree that they increase profitability for dealers, since the overall effect is to increase their costs, and therefore the costs of the commodity, in terms of arrangements for smuggling, legal fees, security overhead, and so on. Anyway, what I meant was your idea of letting them use, but penalizing for on the job use, or intoxication while using heavy machinery, or whatnot. I am not sure that that will limit abuse enough. As far as medical and educational business goes, well, after a major anti- smoking campaign in the schools, smoking went up, so I am not sanguine. On the medical side, everyone knows that the key is motivation. Sometimes, the only way to generate such motivation is the threat or fact of incarceration. And I think we will have to wait for longitudinal studies of what happens in those European countries with liberal policies. (It is not, in any case, clear that the dynamics in the United States would be the same.) So I think we are mainly left with speculation, at this point, about how things would balance out......