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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (2375)	1/19/2003 8:17:22 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 25898

bravo and amen

To: PartyTime who wrote (2375)	1/19/2003 8:47:35 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

that ol dog won't hunt. Legalizing drugs is not the answer to curing our national problem...how much did it help America to legalize booze......I read that there are over 100,000 deaths per year related to alcohol, whether it be disease, accidents, whatever. Add that to no tellng how many split families, wasted lives, lost worker production, etc. Look around the country...where is crime the highest? I bet you will find it is where drugs, esp. crack, is the CHEAPEST...cheap available drugs does not insure less crime or disease. You would just have more drug related deaths, more drug related losses in worker productivity, more hospitals filled with drug emergencies, more college dropouts, more pregnant women producing drug addicted babies. Legalization just removes incentive to stay away from drugs. There are a certain number of people that will always do drugs, but there are many more that will NOT use drugs to keep out of trouble and not have that ball and chain of a police record to drag around.

To: PartyTime who wrote (2375)	1/19/2003 8:50:31 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Not QUITE that simple. You'd get a lot of problems too. You've got to expect some increase in drug use if they are legalized. And we're not talking pot here; this stuff (morphine, heroin, LSD, speed, crack, etc.) is dangerous. The next problem you face is the screaming of the loved ones of those who killed themselves with the drugs. And their efforts to get anti-drug laws re-instated. AND you've got the problem of more people driving while drugging. But the war on drugs is like Vietnam. It's lost. It's time to declare victory and go home. This is like Prohibition. I have trouble convincing myself the results of legalization would be any worse than the war.