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Politics : Libertarian Discussion Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MeDroogies who wrote (2903)	5/26/1999 1:05:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13062

One day, the powers that be awoke and said "Gee, let us criminalize everyone's fun"...Doubt it. Problems arising from the accessibility of various narcotics drove the movement to restrict access...About the increase of problems: Given the multiple variables at play over a long period of time, there would be various possible answers, such as increasing supply, a break- down of social inhibitions about drug use, increased potency of the available drugs, post- War affluence, the turbulence of the '60s and its aftershock...I have said that some penalties are too harsh, and that it is not worth any amount of police action to get rid of all vice. Just some to limit it...