<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 8:08 AM, Henry Rivera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hrivera@alumni.virginia.edu" target="_blank">hrivera@alumni.virginia.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Great points Dave. <br>
And can we stop pretending that crack is worse than cocaine or that meth is worse than Adderal? They are chemically the same. <span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"> I made a direct comparison between two different categories of ingested substances. One that is legal and ruins or ends far more lives than the ones that are illegal.</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The difference is needing a prescription. If crack is not more addictive then why do they make it?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Yes, we all know that if you wanted to make one drug illegal out of alcohol, tobacco, and pot, it would not be pot - safest drug there is, although anything that messes with our minds is not totally safe.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">What can we ban and still call ourselves a free society and remain consistent with libertarian principles?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">True - tobacco is worse than anything I know to quit (I quit both tobacco and alcohol, and the latter was even easy - but I cannot say that quitting tobacco was very hard - it was not, and I smoked two packs a day) Pot is not addictive. Maybe if we make it legal and raise taxes on tobacco and alcohol some people will transition to it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I do not believe in what someone called an implicit precursor. One drug does not lead to another. Now some people will want to try anything once they find out that they can take stuff that creates a different mindset. It's the person, not the drug. Only 5% of pot users go on to heroin, making the statistic 'nearly all heroin users start with pot' irrelevant and very misleading.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Here is how to create billion dollar crime syndicates: make something people want illegal. Like alcohol. Then create federal agencies to stop it, which was very expensive and did not work well. Now we have the same thing again. Is anyone thinking that the DEA has made much difference in the drug trade? And has cost us many billions.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">One solution: make them all legal and use the money for treatment, just like the users were experiencing a health problem, which many are.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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