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To: KLP who wrote (120182)	6/15/2005 8:42:16 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 793964

Are you saying by making the hard drugs legal, that the violence will stop???? Some violence will stop. People won't shoot eachother fighting over turf to sell drugs, you won't have "drug deals gone bad" resulting in violence and death. Prohibition creates and incentive to run an illegal operation. Such illegal operations become organized crime both at higher levels (major drug cartels and importers), and lower, such as drug selling street gangs. I didn't say that making drugs legal with solve all the problems. I didn't hint at it or imply it. Your suggestion that I did is attacking a straw man. We have plenty of problems with alcohol now, but I still don't want to go back to a situation where it is sold by people like Al Capone. Tim