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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] "First, there is the responsibility issue. Society would be saying, in effect, 'Its alright to be a crackhead. And, if you get addicted we'll pay for it. After all, we allowed you to become a doper in the forst place. Legally!'" Here you say that it would be society's fault. "Personal responsibility has to come into play here." Here you are apparently indicating that the blame for addiction rests wholely on the addict. So whose fault is it? "Second, do you really want a whole population of permanently medicated crackheads wandering the streets?" Unlike, say, the ones that do so now? "Let's see... Let's have them drive cars, teach school, and all of those other jobs where we want people to be alert and awake." Huh? Do you actually believe that making a substance legal translates into sweaty heroin addicts somehow getting jobs as grade school teachers and sitting in the back of the classroom pumping junk into their veins? Have you ever stopped, just for a moment, and realized that being drunk is legal but being drunk while behind the wheel isn't? Has that thought ever crossed your mind? "Why increase the numbers?" Why would it? "Also, why should my tax dollars go to take care of some moron who chose to get himself addicted?" What on Earth does this have to do with legalization? "Also, where did I say that something is compulsory?" You keep saying that the only reason people don't do drugs is because they are forbidden to do so, and that should that commandment disappear millions upon millions of otherwise normal people would instantly turn into shivering opium fiends. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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