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          Cynic  wrote:

> >Says someone who has never watched the slow decline of an alcoholic or the
> >misery caused by a son who becomes a drug addict. I am grateful that my
> >family has never been affected by either, but the families of friends have,
> >and I disagree completely about the price. 
 
> Hold on - how could that possibly have happened wrt drugs which are
> prohibited?  Maybe because prohibition *doesn't work*?

Is alcohol prohibited?
 
> So instead of only having the risk of a loved one being destroyed by
> the abuse of drugs, you also have the risk of a loved one being
> destroyed by being convicted of a drug-related crime, or getting
> mugged by a drug addict who would not have needed to steal had his
> drug been available legally, or caught in the cross-fire of rival
> criminal drug gangs.

Being "destroyed" by conviction for illegal possession of a drug doesn't
worry me at all. If someone deliberately does something illegal, tough. As
for your other scenarios, what makes you think that criminals will stop
being criminals, even if your dreams about the utopia drug legalisation are
correct?

Ken Down

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