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To: fod
And we would be better off chucking those millions of alcoholics in the pokey, right?

Nope - not my point at all. These MILLIONS of people wouldn't be alcoholics if alcohol were illegal. Alcohol would be too hard to obtain. But with easy access, hey, anybody can become an alcoholic. But I guess that's their legal right - to become alcoholics, if they so choose. Right? Same with cigarettes. Same with anything. Make it legal and provide easy access to it - anybody can become addicted to anything. And even with the substances that are illegal, the pro-drug people seem to have no trouble finding them, or selling them to your children.

111 posted on 05/23/2007 11:56:52 AM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Evil never sleeps.)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
One of the reasons prohibition ended was the unfettered and unregulated access of a certain product which was in demand, which in turn fueled a lucrative criminal underground.

sound familiar?

"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President. Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of Representatives

114 posted on 05/23/2007 12:07:30 PM PDT by fod (We are dancing on a volcano)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
These MILLIONS of people wouldn't be alcoholics if alcohol were illegal. Alcohol would be too hard to obtain.

Are you even vaguely aware that this is utterly untrue and that when alcohol *was* illegal it did nothing to curb addiction? Provide something other than idle speculation; there are statistics arrayed against you that even cursory examination of the Prohibition period will reveal.
123 posted on 05/23/2007 12:29:37 PM PDT by jack_napier
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
RE: DC

He may be correct. You come off as ill advised and contradictory almost to the point of hypocrisy. Your personal page here would lead one to suspect that you are a lover of liberty, but conversing with you makes one think that you are more of a lover of the progressive era and its present nanny state hangover.

That, and you seem like a thin skinned whiner. Oh well, it will just give you fuel to complain about those meanie libertarians that made you (hopefully) second guess your principles, but most probably just raised your blood pressure and made your head heart.

170 posted on 05/24/2007 5:10:38 AM PDT by fod (-: making a living without having to lick things ;-)
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