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Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
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Date: 
Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:33:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:

It is a twisted attempt to dehumanize those who
choose to self-medicate.

When will the madness end?

Legalize coke, and I'll show you where it will begin...

   The problem isn't so much that it's illegal, but that we've accepted
   that it's the law's job to police morality.  The danger of legalizing
   drugs isn't the legalization itself so much as the direction our society
   is already going with personal responsibility.  I'm talking about the
   recent spate of lawsuits that are trying to redefine addiction as a
   "disability" to be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act
   and therefore something you can't "discriminate" against.  What a crock!

   Fortunately, it hasn't worked, yet...

   best

   LFB



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  Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
 
(...) One might *suppose* the violence would settle, but we have no way of knowing that, much less calling that hypothetical "truth". How many Americans would you suppose could use a highly addictive drug such as cocaine "responsibly"? If cocaine (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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