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To: Suma who wrote (60562)	4/21/2008 5:08:35 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542141

Things can always be worse. But our system is pretty bad. We need a new model. We need to start by throwing out the punitive model for adults who want to use drugs. Let them use whatever they want, as long as they don't endanger anyone with their drug use. If adults want treatment, let's spend the money we would have spent on prisons on getting them treatment. Many drugs aren't even particularly dangerous, and many drug problems are caused by the illegality rather than the drugs themselves. Not to say there wouldn't be sad cases if drugs were legal, but we wouldn't be spending as much on prisons, and there would not be as much violence, with the criminal element out of the equation, and we'd have a lot more money for rehabilitation, and people's lives would not be ruined by criminal records for victimless crimes. Prostitution should be legal too. These puritanical blue laws just don't make sense. They actually create a culture of crime around the irresistible needs of some of the people in our society. Could anything be more pathetic? Could you design a system mroe flawed if you wanted to?