To: Tolik
Sorry Orson. Drug legalization would be one step in right direction. Treating addiction as a medical problem rather than a criminal issue would be a healthy paradigm shift.
This society is fighting cigarette use through education and isolating it with legal restrictions. Why not the same for dope?
6 posted on
07/15/2004 9:10:58 AM PDT by
zarf
To: lepton
Calling lepton, calling lepton...
To: zarf
This society is fighting cigarette use through education and isolating it with legal restrictions. Why not the same for dope? Because it is an astounding failure? When I was a teenager, it was widely held among teenagers that only an idiot would smoke. By the time I graduated college, smoking was all the rage again. People were smoking everywhere they could get away with it.
That is still true today, kids are all smoking again.
To: zarf
Treating addiction as a medical problem rather than a criminal issue would be a healthy paradigm shift. This society is fighting cigarette use through education and isolating it with legal restrictions. Why not the same for dope?
And you don't see any contradiction in your arguments?
21 posted on
07/15/2004 11:19:34 AM PDT by
lepton
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