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To: logician2u
I have a quick question for all of those that think ending the war on drugs is the best idea since pizza: would legalizing drugs make it easier to get them?
10 posted on 07/25/2002 12:08:17 PM PDT by ECM
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To: ECM
No. Read the threads about Inuit huffing gasoline. Addicts will find drugs no matter if they are literally 4000 miles from the nearest dealer and can't rub two dimes together.
11 posted on 07/25/2002 12:11:04 PM PDT by eno_
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To: ECM
It's easy to get them now.
12 posted on 07/25/2002 12:13:04 PM PDT by gracie1
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To: ECM
would legalizing drugs make it easier to get them?

Yes, it would. That doesn't alter the fact that it is the correct public policy position.

19 posted on 07/25/2002 12:18:00 PM PDT by Sloth
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To: ECM
I have a quick question for all of those that think ending the war on drugs is the best idea since pizza: would legalizing drugs make it easier to get them?

About the same as tabacco or alchohol, I'd think. You just couldn't sell it to minors.

21 posted on 07/25/2002 12:18:58 PM PDT by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: ECM
would legalizing drugs make it easier to get them?

I doubt it. Possibly marginally easier for legal adults, but I can say with certainty that it would be harder for underage teens to get them, as it's currently easier for an average high school student to obtain marijuana or ecstacy than alcohol or tobacco.

25 posted on 07/25/2002 12:22:56 PM PDT by truenospinzone
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To: ECM
would legalizing drugs make it easier to get them?

Probably not. In many areas of the country it is easier to get pot than beer for those underage.

For older folx, it might make it somewhat more available, but beyond the initial spike as it was legalized, use would probably remain about what it is now. Overall, given the massive evil that comes from the WOD, legalization is the only sane solution. This is of course why it won't happen.

49 posted on 07/25/2002 12:45:56 PM PDT by zeugma
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To: ECM
I have a quick question for all of those that think ending the war on drugs is the best idea since pizza: would legalizing drugs make it easier to get them?

Yes. But the assumption in your question is that more people will use them if they are easier to get them. And the (dare I say a priori?) assumption beneath that is people are such undiciplined and corruptable pools of lusting protoplasm, that, at the mere hint of a sanctionless way of destroying themselves and society, they'll gobble it up out of a mindless reflex.

To this I say bullshit.

53 posted on 07/25/2002 12:56:33 PM PDT by William Terrell
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