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To: MrLeRoy; toothless
Doesn't the second part of your sentence contradict the first?

The point Im trying to make is,legalization will not work. Ask any recovering cocaine addict or alcoholic. Through the Grace of God, I have overcome both. At the same time I could slip right back into the self destruction that those addictions brought me to, with the ease of swatting a fly. That is the nature of addiction. It cant be regulated...period. And that is not just my opinion, at one time it was my life. So spin it anyway you want, legalization wont work, I am living proof.

46 posted on 03/25/2003 10:56:50 AM PST by cardinal4 (The Senate Armed Services Comm; the Chinese pipeline into US secrets)
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To: cardinal4
How did you beat your addiction? Did jail help you?
47 posted on 03/25/2003 10:59:38 AM PST by toothless (I AM A MAN)
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To: cardinal4
Seems to me that, if anything, cocaine addicts are living proof that ILlegalization doesn't work.
48 posted on 03/25/2003 11:00:01 AM PST by MrLeRoy ("That government is best which governs least.")
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To: cardinal4
"Through the Grace of God, I have overcome both. At the same time I could slip right back into the self destruction that those addictions brought me to, with the ease of swatting a fly."

So, is the State stopping you from buying a liter of vodka?

What you are doing, YOU are doing, not the government.

You don't drink for the same reason that I don't do drugs anymore, and it has nothing to do with whatever action the Feds took against my drug of choice.

It was illegal while I did it, and it didn't stop me then, and it wouldn't stop me now if I decided to do it again. Only willpower and the grace of God stopped me from doing drugs, not the government.

94 posted on 03/25/2003 1:32:58 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
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