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from: Laurie Campbell
date: 2003-02-26 20:12:52
subject: Re: Bare Naked Ladies?

> KR> What scares hell out of me is, if drugs are legalized, what's to
> KR> stop people from being as stupid with them as they are with
> KR> alcohol, and getting behind the wheel stoned?  Not a pretty
> KR> prospect, from where I sit, and just the thing to increase the
> KR> already intolerable slaughter on the highways.
>
>What you will get is a very large spike of deaths by car accident,
overdose,
>etc. which will begin to taper off as the abusers kill themselves ( and
>innocents) off.  People will either then lose interest as the novelty wears
off
>or the gubmint will step in to make the drugs illegal again, (rightly)
citing
>the huge death rate.
>
You'll have the only country where that has happened, then. This was, of
course, one of the arguments against stopping prohibition, and it was wrong
then, too.

Laurie it appears some people learned nothing from prohibition Phoenix

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