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Re: Drug Czar's plea to downgrade 'E'
Tue, 27 May 2008 09:04:23 -0700 (PDT)
On May 27, 3:59 am, "Aidy" <noem...@noemail.xxx> wrote:
> > Why? When a new car, fridge, light bulb, toothpaste etc, comes out the
> > manufactures don't try to sneak them onto the black market!
>
> On the contrary, fake good and low quality goods often make it onto the
> black market to avoid regulation.
"F ...
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Re: Drug Czar's plea to downgrade 'E'
Fri, 23 May 2008 10:47:58 -0700 (PDT)
On May 23, 3:44 am, "Aidy" <noem...@noemail.xxx> wrote:
> > How does it damage society? If that damage is due to the money going
> > into criminal hands, that's a powerful argument for legalizing
> > drugs ... just as the booze money going into criminal hands during
> > America's Prohibition was a powerful argum ...
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Re: Drug Czar's plea to downgrade 'E'
Fri, 23 May 2008 10:46:51 -0700 (PDT)
On May 23, 3:40 am, "Aidy" <noem...@noemail.xxx> wrote:
> > The safety issue is that drugs are safer when legal and regulated.
>
> No, the safety issues I refer to are clinical trials etc.
Most if not all illegal drugs have been well studied.
> The g'ment can't
> just allow the public to ingest something
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Re: Drug Czar's plea to downgrade 'E'
22 May 2008 13:37:23 -0800
In article <C9mdneSPUZCMM6jVnZ2dneKdnZzinZ2d@bt.com> "Aidy" <noemail@noemail.xxx> writes:
>The other thing people are conveniently forgetting here is that while drug
>taking is, on a certain level, a "victimless crime" the buying of drugs is
>not. It is the exchange of money that does the damage to society.
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Re: Drug Czar's plea to downgrade 'E'
22 May 2008 20:18:44 GMT
In article <RMadnerzENinLKjVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@bt.com>,
Aidy <noemail@noemail.xxx> wrote:
>And the final argument against that is that most people only take drugs
>*because* they are illegal.
I find that suggestion incredible. Do you have a cite to back it up?
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Re: Drug Czar's plea to downgrade 'E'
Thu, 22 May 2008 10:56:26 -0700 (PDT)
On May 22, 12:45 pm, "Aidy" <noem...@noemail.xxx> wrote:
> > I think you missed the point that it is the laws that are unjust and it
> > would be safer to regulate drugs rather than continually make matters
> > worse by prohibiting them.
>
> That's just your opinion. For a start there are the safety issues befor ...
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Re: Drug Czar's plea to downgrade 'E'
Thu, 22 May 2008 10:47:15 -0700 (PDT)
On May 22, 12:32 pm, "Aidy" <noem...@noemail.xxx> wrote:
> The other thing people are conveniently forgetting here is that while drug
> taking is, on a certain level, a "victimless crime"
It's good to know you've figured that much out.
> the buying of drugs is
> not. It is the exchange of money that does t ...
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Re: Drug Czar's plea to downgrade 'E'
Thu, 22 May 2008 10:44:45 -0700 (PDT)
On May 22, 12:28 pm, "Aidy" <noem...@noemail.xxx> wrote:
> > "Not everyone is persuaded" to obey laws against X is a point in favor
> > of legalizing X that is outweighed by X's being a violation of the
> > rights of others (there's me directly addressing the point of your
> > analogy) ... but while rape and mur ...
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Re: Drug Czar's plea to downgrade 'E'
Thu, 22 May 2008 08:46:47 -0700 (PDT)
On May 22, 5:13 am, "Aidy" <noem...@noemail.xxx> wrote:
> > Drugs? I assume you mean; "Drugs currently proscribed as illegal in this
> > country".
>
> Yes, I wasn't aware I had to spell that out, I thought it was rather
> obvious.
>
> > Does that make it right?
>
> I'm not talking about what's "right", but ...
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Re: Drug Czar's plea to downgrade 'E'
Thu, 22 May 2008 08:43:08 -0700 (PDT)
On May 22, 5:02 am, "Aidy" <noem...@noemail.xxx> wrote:
> > "Also"? So you concede that it is in fact an argument for legalization
> > and regulation?
>
> Cool, now we're playing semantics. Sure beats tackling the actual arguments
> at hand, especially if you can't.
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