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From: clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
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Subject: Re: Drug Abuse - True Problem or Media Hype?
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Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 21:44:00 EDT
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In article <720@nrcvax.UUCP> terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad) writes:
>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.

I can't see how it would be any much different from people so addicted
to alcohol that they can't work.  You don't see much crime in support
of that habit (even here, where the price of liquor is priced ridiculously
high by the provincial Govt. (2 to 3 times that in the states)).  Often
welfare is enough to keep them in booze.  Besides, they've probably destroyed 
themselves so thoroughly that they're unable to commit robberies of anybody
sober enough to have any money...  The worst they usually do is clutter
up the parks/mess up the sidewalks...  Even so, I'd chose that over prohibition 
any day.
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