On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:18:50 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:25:48 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/26/2017 11:15 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 10:35:56 -0400 (EDT), justan wrote:

John H Wrote in message:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump...ry?id=50718774

I'm sure this is in some way absolutely atrocious, but I'm not progressively liberal enough to dig
up the atrocity.

I'm sure Harry Krause or slammer will figure it out.


We need to determine the difference between crisis and emergency
before we go picking nits over what trump said
about the drug
problem. I wonder if he's going to abandon the war on drugs and
come up with some program that will actually work.


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The war on drugs doesn't work, just like prohibition didn't work, and
for the same reason - demand was there and suppliers will always step
into the breach. Just like alchohol, the solution will be
legalization, taxation and control. It will also solve a huge crime
problem. It's not a perfect solution but better than what we are
doing now because it will put dealers, distributors, drug gangs and
smugglers out of business. Users will still get addicted and over
dose but that's happening now.


I've heard talk recently of a vaccine being developed to combat opioid
addiction.

Wasn't that what methadone was supposed to do? The guy next door ended
up hooked on methadone.
It reminds me of people who got the gum to stop smoking and now they
have a $250 a month gum habit.

I'll have you know my gum habit runs less than $15/month!