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From: olsen@ll-xn.ARPA (Jim Olsen)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Drugs in America
Message-ID: <278@ll-xn.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 22:00:58 EST
Article-I.D.: ll-xn.278
Posted: Tue Mar  4 22:00:58 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Mar-86 05:51:47 EST
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Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
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Keywords: drugs, drug abuse, drunk driving
Summary: Ethical basis for banning addictive drugs

I think the discussion under this topic has missed the basic ethical
issue.  As I see it, the reason for banning addictive drugs is that the
drugs affect the user's decision to continue using them, and therefore
their use is cannot be truly voluntary.  Of course, drawing the line
between addictive and non-addictive drugs is difficult, but many drugs
(e.g., heroin) clearly fit this line of reasoning.
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Jim Olsen   (olsen@ll-xn.arpa)  ...!{decvax,lll-crg,seismo}!ll-xn!olsen