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To: Dan B. who wrote (5354)	12/7/2006 1:56:25 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

From my earlier post: "Prohibition created gangsters way back when. Today prohibition of marijuana, etc., is again very similarly making our streets unsafe I think its cocaine and other drugs that are making our streets unsafe. while needlessly driving kids into learning and spreading cutthroat philosophies from a cutthroat business, all for the good money available, little more." Adding to this I will say that seeking marijuana today indeed leads one into contact with, um, "gangsters" who have much else to sample and sell. Think about it. It isn't the drug, it's the people involved. Legalize it, and H.S. kids - some of whom don't even smoke weed - will quit selling it for the profit. Kids push and encourage kids just as adult sellers do. Legalizing weed wouldn't legalize it for teens. There's still be an age limit just like alcohol. And kids would still seek to get it just as they do now seek both weed and alcohol and etc. Also, I think the drug itself (not just the people they buy it from) is harmful for young people. While illegal, the push is great from sellers even in little towns across the country. Legalized, there would still be vast profits in drugs, just as there is in cigarettes and alcohol. The pushers would be RJ Reynolds etc and their Madison Ave marketing agencies. The sellers would still try to get young people to use it just as they do cigarettes. With drugs legalized, the greatest peer push as we know it today, will die. Why? Peers push cigarettes and alcohol to one another too. Legalization wouldn't change that.