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To: Brumar89 who wrote (218597)9/5/2007 5:23:55 PM
From: Sea Otter  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 793757
 
Well, they legalized alcohol.

That seems to have worked out okay.

Certainly alcohol is one of the most powerful drugs out there. Not as addictive and extreme as heroin, of course, but certainly more potent than weed and with more negative social effects (I've been hassled by drunks before, but never by a pothead).

Legalize it, tax it. And if some folks have personal issues with it, well, that's why we have AA.

(Actually, to undercut my own argument, I don't support instant full legalization either. Things should go in small steps. And a good first step would be to decriminialize drugs and focus law-enforcement elsewhere, like murder and robbery).



To: Brumar89 who wrote (218597)9/5/2007 5:38:50 PM
From: alanrs  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793757
 
Successful real world experiments would impress me though.

That's a fine approach when combined with "and there's no way I'd actually go along with that."

Oh, the hell with it. "People drink to have fun. They do drugs to get high." Richard Nixon. Kind of says it all.

ARS


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