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In message ups.com,
Tim
sprach forth the following:

Your tax dollars at work!

Who cares if someone is hurting themselves?

Because drug use often results in crimes on others to obtain money to
support the habit, especially with hard drugs like cocaine.


Quiz time, Jim. Think about violence related to the manufacture,
transport and sale of alcoholic beverages. When is the last time you
heard of that kind of violence SPECIFICALLY related to booze?


That has nothing to do with Fred's question. Nice try.


It has everything to do with it. But, I'm not surprised you missed it.
Hint: Forget the words "drug use" and think about the word "crimes". Or,
substitute "violence".


If you do not see the correlation between hard drug use and crimes against
others that is your problem Joe. The subject of the thread has to do with
cocaine, not alcohol.

I *DO* see the connection you mentioned. But, you must've been asleep in
high school when the math teacher was discussing set theory. The crimes you
mentioned are a subset of a larger category: drug related crime, in general.
This includes not just the crimes you pointed out, but also those committed
by people who sell drugs. Turf wars, for instance. This is how it relates to
prohibition, and this is why I asked you the original question. Much of the
violence exists because the stuff is illegal. This is why you have not heard
of THIS TYPE of violence related to alcohol.

Do NOT send this discussion off in another direction by pointing out that
crimes are sometimes committed because people are drunk. That has nothing to
do with the legality of the substance involved.