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To: jlallen who wrote (14207)	4/20/1998 10:00:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

JLA, Yes, indeed! We should be allowed to screw up our own lives, as you put it. Why should the government have all of the fun? Seriously, I do not believe many people would opt for a life of drugs and degradation should drugs be legalized or decriminalized. Many of those who know believe society would see a lot less genuine crime and a lot fewer misspent specimens of humanity should drug laws be repealed. Point of clarification: Alcohol and nicotine are drugs. There is no basis for distinguishing between the current crop of illegal drugs and alcohol and nicotine. Holly

To: jlallen who wrote (14207)	4/21/1998 8:56:00 AM
From: Janice Shell	Respond to of 20981

Do you draw a line or should we all be free to screw up our lives with the poison of our choice? Needless to say, I'd have some reservations about legalizing the likes of heroin and crack. But if you're not going to make a hard drugs/soft drugs distinction, which wouldn't free us from the depredations of criminal dealers, I suppose you've got to do all or none. I agree with your comment to Holly that it would be necessary to find a better way to prevent use by minors, and that wouldn't be easy. Opium? Have you ever smoked opium? Unlikely to become the drug of choice for very many people, I think. Not really very interesting, and keeping the damned stuff lit is a pain in the ass.

To: jlallen who wrote (14207)	4/21/1998 6:17:00 PM
From: James R. Barrett	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

>>"Would you support legalizing heroin? Crack? Prescription medicines like Seconol and other barbituates. Morphine? Opium?"<< JLA, you seem to forget (or ignore) the fact that all of those drugs are freely available TODAY. A telephone call or a walk down to the corner drug dealer with money in your pocket is all that is required. The LAW can't even prevent EASY access to drugs. The least we should be getting for the billions $$ we give the DEA every year is that they make it DIFFICULT to obtain drugs. But that hasn't happened and probably never will happen unless they start executing drug dealers which America will never allow. Jim