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To: Neocon who wrote (2657)	5/8/1999 2:18:00 PM
From: Mama Bear	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13056

I see. Better that 9 innocent men be incarcerated than for one guilty man go free. That is the old chestnut, isn't it? "It is true that I do not have much practical experience with the matter, but it is simply true that cocaine and heroin, for example, are not made in the kitchen." Umm, and what is it that makes you think that? Neither is a particularly complicated process. "In any case, the arguments about the futility of the Prohibition of alcohol were multiple" And apply equally to all substances, IMO. Alcohol is not pharmacologically different enough to be separated from the others. To state that because more users of an illegal substance are criminals is disingenuous at best. Punishing innocent people is anathema in a free society no matter how you couch the argument. Barb