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Packoderm
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Sniffing glue is not illegal. Do we need classes on how to properly sniff glue? Your argument amounts to basically nothing.
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Packoderm
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It's so easy to drift off topic.
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Steve&Debby
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Ken,This is Steve
This is a sore subject between me and my wife ,she is more on your side, as much as I hate to say.
I do not know a solution for the drug problem. If legalization is the answer,won't the number of drug addicts sky rocket? How will we deal with that
problem?
O" I forgot Obama's health care will take care of that!!!!!
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Steve&Debby
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Packoderm, I believe that is called Huffing ,and yes it is illeagal in California
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Steve& ebby
Ken,This is Steve
This is a sore subject between me and my wife ,she is more on your side, as much as I hate to say.
I do not know a solution for the drug problem. If legalization is the answer,won't the number of drug addicts sky rocket? How will we deal with that
problem?
O" I forgot Obama's health care will take care of that!!!!! |
Steve
It hasn't happened in countries where legalization exists (The Netherlands, for example). It is my opinion that the number of addicts is not a
function of whether the drugs are legal or illegal. As the USA has amply proven, the users will get the drugs one way or the other. Legalization,
IMHO, will not significantly change the number of addicts. It will, however, eliminate the huge illegal profits and the violence and crime which
accompanies them.
++Ken++
carpe diem!
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DENNIS
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So..lets turn this whole thing around for a minute. Make it mandatory, a law, that everybody has to use drugs. Most everybody obeys the law and uses
drugs to greater excess as habits morphs their needs and they begin to weaken and die. They die en masse and populations are diminishing, albeit
legally.
Eventually, all that is left are those who broke the law and didn't induldge. In both scenarios the lawbreaker wins. What's up with that?
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Ken Bondy
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DENNIS I don't exactly see what your strange theory proves. And I have to admit I am a little weary of theories. This is very real to me. My
son-in-law, father of my youngest grandchild, died yesterday of a heroin overdose. He had absolutely no problems getting his highly illegal drugs.
There is a possibility he could have been treated had they been legal.
[Edited on 12-1-2009 by Ken Bondy]
carpe diem!
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LancairDriver
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Check out this link- this is how Malasia deals with the drug problem. Wonder how effective it is?
http://news.malaysia.msn.com/regional/article.aspx?cp-docume...
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DENNIS
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Sorry Ken. I had no idea. I wasn't theorizing...just stretching the imagination. The whole topic is frightening and frustrating.
My condolences, Ken. I mourn your loss.
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Steve&Debby
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Ken,
I agree with the part about the profits,but if the drugs are legalized the price would go down and more people could afford to try things like
meth,for example, witch is very addictive, more drug addicts.We all know meth adicts will do anything to get a fix.
Steve
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Ken Bondy
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Understand DENNIS, appreciate your kind words. Steve, my concept of legalization does not involve a reduction in price. The profits would be legal
and could be used to finance treatment and education.
carpe diem!
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Bajaboy
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Do we really need to have this discussion again?!
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fishbuck
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Did they ever find that truck?
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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Santiago
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajaboy
Do we really need to have this discussion again?! |
Really....
as per D. Gilmore:
"...I've become....comfortably numb." on this issue, anyway.
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Packoderm
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajaboy
Do we really need to have this discussion again?! |
I think we might continue to as long as it is such a strong component in what ills Baja lately.
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Pacifico
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Truck?????
Anyone??????
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Baja&Back
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In Vancouver BC, city council effectively legalized heroin & provided cushy lounges to shoot up in. 4 years later, there are four times as many
heroin users in Vancouver, 4 times as many drug deaths, and 4 times as much theft & breakins to pay for drugs. (Source: Fraser Valley Health
Authority)
City council is starting to change their views.
In Singapore, possession of drugs is punishable by death, a fact proclaimed in 12" high letters as you deplane in Changi airport.
Singapore has ZERO drug problems.
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surfer jim
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And now ...after a long interuption  ..... we return to the topic of a STOLEN
TRUCK.....
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Packoderm
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Baja&Back
In Vancouver BC, city council effectively legalized heroin & provided cushy lounges to shoot up in. 4 years later, there are four times as many
heroin users in Vancouver, 4 times as many drug deaths, and 4 times as much theft & breakins to pay for drugs. (Source: Fraser Valley Health
Authority)
City council is starting to change their views. |
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1030/p04s02-woam.html
| Quote: | Originally posted by Baja&Back
In Singapore, possession of drugs is punishable by death, a fact proclaimed in 12" high letters as you deplane in Changi airport.
Singapore has ZERO drug problems. |
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/01/15/singapore.ex...
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surfer jim
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well...maybe not.....
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