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Re: Know your enemy & Nuff said on Pete: who was harmed? & Pissed at Pete Too !!!! & Woke up Free but Branded by his Fans Too?
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- Subject: Re: Know your enemy & Nuff said on Pete: who was harmed? & Pissed at Pete Too !!!! & Woke up Free but Branded by his Fans Too?
- From: Alan McKendree <amck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 22:08:17 -0500
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From: John Hughes <john@pureneasy.fsnet.co.uk>
I wonder if you can imagine how slack jawed my colleagues were when I
said much the same thing the other day?? :-)
Which, that drugs should be legalized or that penalties for using
them had been reduced?
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 20:10:45 EDT
From: Keithjmoon70@aol.com
NO one in the universe can sell me on the harmlessness of drugs.
I would never try, because I believe they ARE harmful. But I still
think it's an individual's right to decide for him/herself to use
them or not. Legalizing them would have the side benefit of
destroying the drug-trafficking industry, with its associated
murders, prostitution, and other crimes, at a stroke, as prices
plummeted to 15% or so of the current costs. The current situation
is Prohibition all over again, which was a clear demonstration for
those who needed it of the futility of outlawing a drug.
She then became a heroin addict when she was just 13 years old. Now she is
36, still an addict (for life) and in prison. Who was there to watch her 3
kids through much of this? Who kept *them* from getting raped? Who paid for
the 8 wrecked cars? Who turned her in? Who showed her A different Bomb? Me.
She's beyond lucky to have you, Jon. My admiration to you for your loyalty.
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 11:28:20 -0400
From: "Kevin O'Neal" <kevinandt@gmavt.net>
FWIW, I would never say that heroin is not all that bad for you, and I
still want it, along with crack and you name it, legalized.
Wha?
Why Allan! How....um......liberal of you!
'Tis, isn't it? Thought I would have mentioned it in this forum by
now. The flip side is that if you decide to use drugs, it's not the
government's problem to get you out of them. Don't worry, I have
positions that alienate liberals *and* conservatives. One is that
taxes as such are immoral and would not exist in a fully moral
society.
I'm all for letting people make their own choices, but with the defunct
capitalist healthcare system we have in this country, we couldn't *afford*
to let Heroin be legal.
It's an catchy assertion, but the healthcare system is not defunct,
as I can clearly demonstrate with my past few years of medical
records and the fact that people come here from all over the world
for treatment. What troubles the system *does* have could be cured
by introducing *more* capitalism -- at base, stop treating skilled
doctors as community resources, rather as individuals offering a
service at market rates.
I trust I've lost my liberal credentials by now? Happy to discuss
these non-Who topics offline if anyone cares.
Cheers,
--
Alan
"That's unbelievable, if that's true"
-- Howard Stern, 5/25/00