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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (2632)	5/19/2003 12:13:31 PM
From: Gulo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37256

Why do people continually confuse decriminalization with legalization? Criminal law was originally meant to control directly damaging behaviour such as murder, rape, or gross negligence. In the last 100 years, it expanded to include all kinds of victimless crimes, including smoking pot or leaving an unmarked fishing hole in the ice of a frozen lake. It is not that smoking pot or leaving unmarked holes in the ice are behaviours to be condoned, but a simple fine seems more appropriate than giving someone a criminal record (assuming, of course, that you feel you have a right to control someone else's behaviour to that extent). The proposed law would make smoking pot a summary offence instead of an indictable offence. It would not make it legal. -g