From: dos@major.panix.com (Dave O'Shea)
Subject: Re: If Drugs Should Be Legalized, How?  (was Good Neighbor...)
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wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) writes:

> > However, legalizing it and just sticking some drugs in gas stations to
> > be bought like cigarettes is just plain silly.  Plus, I have never
> > heard of a recommended dosage for drugs like crack, ecstasy, chrystal
> > meth and LSD.  The 60 Minute Report said it worked with "cocaine"
> > cigarettes, pot and heroin.
> 
> Or, the government could adopt the radical and probably unAmerican idea
> that citizens are free to live their lives as they wish, and simply
> decriminalize cocaine, marijuana, heroin, LSD, etc.  Please explain why
> the idea of allowing recreational drugs to be "bought like cigarettes"
> is "just plain silly."  After all, it works just fine for nicotine...

I'm all in favor of drug legalization, but I do see some problems with
it. My hope is that people disposed to doing so would simply overdose
quickly, and be done with it, before making a mess of thisgs.

--
Let me get this straight: Medical treatment costs too much and is
inefficient, so we're going to let government make it better?

