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To: Paul Kern who wrote (111897)	5/26/2009 12:23:39 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541851

If drugs were legalized, or decriminalized, and no longer provided a motive for crime, much of the crime in our urban centers would disappear. If we decriminalized prostitution, even more criminal behavior would be nipped in the bud. I say quit wasting money trying to save people from their addictions by police force. I don't mind trying to educate people out of their addictions, and I certainly don't mind trying to train sex workers to do other jobs, but I would like to first protect sex workers and drug addicts- who will always be with us- by taking their activities out from under the umbrella of criminality, where the predatory flourish on the weaknesses of the addicted and needy. We have set up the perfect system to benefit criminals. And our system does nothing to discourage the "sins" it was meant to punish. If anything, looking at the results in places which have decriminalized substances, we seem to be increasing our criminal population while more enlightened countries are decreasing theirs. Perhaps poverty will force us to do what common sense could not- and we will see a smarter approach taken with regard to puritanical laws.