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From: stuart@BMS-AT.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: The war on drugs
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Date: Sun, 28-Sep-86 17:16:57 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 28 17:16:57 1986
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In article <7078@boring.mcvax.UUCP>, jack@mcvax.uucp (Jack Jansen) writes:

> Making drugs readily available will free the junky of the worry of obtaining
> enough money to buy his day's dose, enabling them to re-integrate into
> the 'normal' society.

Even if the drug were cheap, a junkie would not be able to function in a
'normal' society!  The only way to implement this idea is to treat the
junkie as a welfare case and supply free drugs (Netherlands is doing
this now).

Now: the million dollar question:

	What makes a person decide to start taking drugs?

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Stuart D. Gathman	<..!seismo!{vrdxhq|dgis}!BMS-AT!stuart>