<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>I dealt with my own problems but most simply cannot, it seems. Our laws now protect everyone. </font></i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Then why do drug addicts still exist?</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">That, to me, is an astounding question. Have you ever had an opiate high? Or any other kind? If so, you must be able to see that some people,like me and alcohol, cannot moderate it, and so the physiology changes and you need it to function properly - no so much so in the case of alcohol. bill w</font></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 6:10 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 6:37 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#500050"><i><br></i></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I used to think exactly the same thing with regards to drugs. I still think it about gambling and prostitution. But over the years I have come to realize that total access to drugs - antibiotics, for example, which would ruin their effectiveness </font></i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I must admit that is a good point.</font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I dealt with my own problems but most simply cannot, it seems. Our laws now protect everyone. </font></i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Then why do drug addicts still exist?</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div>
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