Re: Off Topic: The Insane War on Drugs

[wurliguy@juno.com]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 06:51:51 -0500 Margaret Tarbet <tarbet@swaa.com>
writes:

>Nick wrote, responding to Greg's quoted post
>
>>>Just legalize drugs and be done with it.
>>
>>Sure - and sell them at Toys 'R' Us.  After all, all those kids can 
>make
>>educated decisions at age 5, can't they?
>
>Does it necessarily follow that legalisation means openly supplying
>to kids?    I shouldn't think so.

I shouldn't either - but it will happen.  If you put drugs on par with
cigarettes, it WILL happen.

>
>
>>>Let people be responsible for themselves. Let parents be 
>>>responsible for their children. Most of them are.
>>
>>Boy - do you have a Polyannish outlook of society and the family 
>unit. 
>>I'm sure all those single-parent children have the best of upbringing 
>-
>>between the two shifts their parent has to work to make ends meet.  
>And,
>>of course, the utopian world you protray would NEVER have a stressed 
>out
>>parent who does drugs and, thereby, neglects their children, now 
>would
>>it?
>
>The problem, though, is that the ones who would be stressed out and
>neglect their kids if all drugs were legal are not  in good shape
>today either.  Plus  they have a financial problem today, on top of
>everything else.

You totally missed my point.

...Nick
WurliGuy@juno.com

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