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From: terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,net.med
Subject: Re: Drug Abuse - True Problem or Media Hype?
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Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 17:41:11 EDT
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gkb@necntc.UUCP (Greg Busby) says:
>>	But for starters, I don't think that tobacco users have
>>	to steal to support their "habit".  Similar for alcohol
>>	users.
>And neither would drug users if the drugs weren't sold on the black
>market, which always has high prices for its commodities (how expensive
>was alcohol during prohibition?). If drugs were
>legal, the competition in the market would drive prices down to the
>point where stealing wouldn't be necessary. 

One small question here:  Some drugs taken often seem to make it
virtually impossible for a person to hold a job.  It seems to me,
therefore, that even if drugs were cheap, there would still be some
stealing for drug money, because the addicted persons wouldn't be able
to work.  (In case you didn't notice, I'm not talking about the casual
user or the social user, but the hard-core, can't-live-without-it
addict.)


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