"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:50:49 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"JimH" wrote in message
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"Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute" wrote in message
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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?

I'd say that the high incidence of drunk driving accidents and
associated mayhem and deaths, in addition to the health problems
associated with alcohol are pretty violent, wouldn't you?

But cocaine seems to do in 6 months what excess alcohol takes 20 years to
accomplish. Some drugs need to be outlawed or at least controlled. Others,
such as pot, should be a free choice item. You can smoke it on private
property, but not on public property. That way, anybody affected is there
by choice. Would reduce the prison population a bunch, taxed, would add
lots of revenue to the state, and reduce the amount of law enforcement
manpower and money spend on the war on drugs. A war we have definitely
lost.