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To: FJB who wrote (218919)	9/7/2007 11:54:31 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793761

Are you saying you think that if drugs are legalized, people would have to have a prescription or a permit to get them?

To: FJB who wrote (218919)	9/7/2007 12:12:56 PM
From: alanrs	Respond to of 793761

>And what would the penalties be for the bad behaviors and/or criminal activities that will happen when the 1 in 10 becomes addicted to them?< I'm sorry to be posting on this again, but I've seen you post this 1 in 10 statistic, and I seriously doubt it is anywhere near that high. I would guess that the vast majority of those born between 1948 and roughly 1987 have tried one or another illegal substance, or a legal substance in an illegal setting, and often as many as they could get their hands on. I don't know the stats-too lazy-but estimates might be 3 million addicts country wide? Somewhere around there. Other drug addicts versus alcohol addicts would have to be delineated also, of course. And then there is the aspect of it that a lot of those people are expressing some psychological or physiological problems, in effect self-medicating, and that this has a lot less to do with 'let's just get high as a kite, run wild in the streets and cause havoc at Karens house, WHOOPPEEE,' than you apparently suspect. That sounds like a stat furnished by a rehab center or a rehab counselor, neither of whom are badly motivated necessarily, but both of whom have a monetary vested interest in you believing that. ARS Edit: Meant to post this to KLP. Further edit: Even if it is 1 in 10, and even if the main driver for all this is to cosmically mess with KLP, what bearing, exactly, does this have on legal/illegal? My point being that if it is 1 in 10 if it's legal, why isn't it 1 in 10 if it's illegal? That is, assuming legal/illegal does not affect the availability in the least, which has been my experience.