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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (713825)	11/17/2005 6:11:50 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

In other words, you made assertions based on no evidence. Yes? You assume it is a "religion" to me. You assume wrong. I would be perfectly happy if all illegal drugs vanished from the earth forever. I'd even let alcohol stay. With them would go the undoubted problems their use does cause. My point, the one you refuse to understand, is that in this case it begins to appear the cure is worse than the disease. Huge federal bureaucracies have been built to (unsuccessfully) fight the War on Drugs. We have no real idea of what our trade deficit is; how can we know with illegal drug money leaving the country? The War on Drugs has ruined many lives. We the taxpayers pay billions every year to incarcerate and monitor its warriors on the wrong side of the law. And have to pay those who put them there. The drugs themselves are dangerous by themselves; add impurities, which illegal manufacturers could barely care about.... OTOH, if those who choose to use now-illegal substances killed themselves with them, they might be doing the rest of us a favor. Stronger, legal drugs would make that more probable. :-) Which points up a reason legalization won't happen: the mommas and papas of those kids will then scream bloody murder about "Why weren't my kids protected from this stuff?" So you and those on the other side actually make common cause. Unintentionally, but there it is.