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To: PROLIFE who wrote (18838)	3/30/2008 12:16:40 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

"whether it should be legal cannot be the question..." Why not? Doesn't an American citizen have a right to express his political opinion? (If you could step aside for a moment Pro... say you could time-travel back to alcohol prohibition in America. A prohibition that I'd personally argue was fully legal, unlike the current prohibition, since the alcohol ban was legally placed into the American Constitution... would you have argued then that American citizens had no right to disagree about the rightfulness of prohibition, or to argue for changes in the law?) Re: "bottom line is that RIGHT NOW it is illegal and also dangerous...IF it became legal, it would still be dangerous to others" 'Dangerous' ACCORDING to whom? By WHAT MEASURE? Certainly not by any medical measure. At least not in comparison to most anything you are likely to have in your own medicine cabinent right now, including aspirin and ibuprofen... not to mention most any of the governmentally regulated (quality guaranteed, distribution controlled, and tax revenue producing) psychoactive recreational substances of equal or greater social popularity such as tobacco or alcohol....

To: PROLIFE who wrote (18838)	3/30/2008 1:32:15 AM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Well .. I have to admit one thing. You think people should go to jail if they simply possess alcohol. So you're even handed in your thinking. Should they go to jail for cigarettes also? Think of all the harm they cause. Should a child become an orphan because daddy and mommy smoked a cigarette?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (18838)	3/30/2008 9:00:58 AM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

"then maybe YOU need to back off the bong a bit, eh?? " I wish I were hitting the bong. I could drive my diabetes back into remission. My nightmares would go away and I could sleep all night again. Most of the aches and pains would go away. My glaucoma would go away. You might be happier also as I may be a little more quiet. But, for the time being, the law required me to keep all of these things. And if I were to try, I would very quickly goto jail again. I'm probably headed there anyway, but I'm sure that I'll get more time if I don't stay clean.