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From: ljw@trsvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: multiple choice question - (nf)
Message-ID: <2844@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 23:24:29 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 15 23:24:29 1983
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trsvax!ljw    Sep  9 08:23:00 1983

***** trsvax:net.flame / uiucdcs!mcewan /  1:55 pm  Sep  8, 1983
/***** uiucdcs:net.flame / hp-kirk!jimd /  4:29 am  Aug 31, 1983 */
Subject: Multiple choice response

I suppose that I might support legalizing and taxing marijuana, however
it is difficult to decide what happens next.  Two of my very best
friends were killed by drug traders after they 'stepped up' to cocaine.
Their offence: not recruiting more customers. I'm sure that their parents
and myself will never feel too secure about this issue. 
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But the only reason that scum like this sell drugs is that the drugs are
illegal. Legalizing drugs is the ONLY way to put these people out of
business.
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Bull manure, the only reason that scum like this sell drugs is that it makes
them a lot of money!  If legalizing drugs is the ONLY way to put these people
out of business, how do you explain the existance of organized crime in Nevada
and Atlantic City.  After all, those people are supposed to leave when gambling
is legalized, at least according to your logic.  Not on your life.  Show me
one incident where scum didn't *increase* when vices were legalized.  The exis-
tense of scum is one reason why harmful drugs should NOT be legalized.
		... (microsoft|ctvax|laidbak)!trsvax!ljw  (Larry J. West)