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To: MeDroogies who wrote (2498)	4/26/1999 7:51:00 PM
From: Richard Babusek	Respond to of 13062

This was my response to someone I respect, who thought it was inevitable that drug use would increase if it were legalized. I prefer the term decriminalized for several reasons, but thats another subject. Drug abusers actively recruits others to use. There are several reasons for this, two can be attributed to the illegality issue. 1. Suppliers have a standing offer to users, “get me new clients, and you can get some free stuff” or, 2. If you buy enough you can get a quantity discount, so you wind up dealing. But you need new customers of your own, it's not healthy take the customers of others. The argument that use would increased due to decriminalization seems to require many who fit the type who currently don't use, but entertain the thought, “gee it's so alluring, I wish it was legal” for the assumed scenario to play out. I think they are a rare type, I've never met one. It seems that an immediate effect of drug decriminalization would be to eradicate virtually all motives to recruit new users along with the illicit drug profits that are probably used to bribe officials and otherwise pollute our society. Ricardo