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From: naz@hou5e.UUCP (Naz Zagorzycki)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: drugs, criminals and America
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Date: Fri, 23-Sep-83 15:42:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 23 15:42:44 1983
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There's an important point to be made about the government's
"criminalization" of drugs.

I thought that this was America, the land of the free,
freedom to choose what's right for your life, and all that.

I thing Americans should have the right to CHOOSE whether they
want to indulge in drugs or not.  If drugs are decriminalized,
that's not saying that a person MUST take them; their right to
not take drugs wouldn't be infringed upon.  But with drugs
criminalized, a person MAY NOT indulge; their rights HAVE been
infringed upon.

Face it, there's no inherent wrong or right in indulging in drugs.
The choice should be left to the people.

Summing up, GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT DICTATE THE CHOICE TO BE MADE,
BUT RATHER ACCOMMODATE EITHER CHOICE MADE.

(Isn't that obvious???)