> john smith wrote:

>> "Yer Pal Al" gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:0d6bbd48-faa1-4ad9-9943-6b34bb49b55b@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>> On Jan 27, 4:37 pm, "john smith" bigpond.net.au> wrote:

>>> "Jorge W. Arbusto, Presidential Candidate"
>>> wrote in
>>> messagenews:h%%8nj.1708$0w.171@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net...
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>>>> "Sanders Kaufman" kaufman.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:xI6nj.749$5K1.74@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net...
>>>> | "Jorge W. Arbusto, Presidential Candidate"
>>>> wrote
>>>> in
>>>> | messagenews:_05nj.3461$nK5.1345@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com...
>>>> | >
>>>> | > Then, one way or another, they'll be eliminated from society.
>>>> Taxpayers'
>>>> | > money shouldn't be used to supply druggie parasites with dope. They
>>>> made
>>>> | > a
>>>> | > conscious decision at some point in their lives to abuse drugs;
>>>> they
>>>> can
>>>> | > either pay the consequences or clean themselves up.
>>>> |
>>>> | Drug abuse is its own consequence.
>>>> The consequence isn't acknowledged by the user.
>>>> | We give them help not to reward them, but to protect ourselves.
>>>> |
>>>> When it becomes too risky to use illegal drugs, many people will choose
>>>> forgo use. This has been proven through DOT's mandatory random drug
>>>> screening scheme.

>>> So using "legal" drugs like alcohol is ok, I am damn sure that drink
>>> driving
>>> kills more than drugs do, and after drinking too much you have violence
>>> not
>>> only in the home but anywhere else either.

>>
>> That's like saying tax cuts mostly help the rich and socialized
>> medicine will mostly help white folks when you disregard the
>> percentages. People are 1000X more likely to be killed distributing
>> and using illegal drugs than alcohol.
>>
>> What crap, what are the stats in USA where people killed in accidents is
>> a direct result of drink driving,not to mention all the cripples from the
>> smae, what cost is that to the country, medical,rehab, courts and the
>> like. And the bloody drink drivers never learn and keep doing it.
>>

>>> Cigarettes are "legal" drugs as
>>> well, how many die from smoking and second hand smoke,how much time does
>>> it
>>> take having a smoko break at work and the wasted production
>>> opportunities
>>> lost. How come you are not harping on about these drugs which are
>>> "legal"

>>
>> Peoples' personal safety is less at risk drinking Jack Daniel's and
>> smoking Camels than Bob's "I didn't know wood alcohol was poisonous"
>> Gin and Martin's "Did I forget to cut it?" heroin.
>>
>> That's crap and you know it.
>>

>>> why don't you push that these drugs are banned once and for all. Think
>>> of
>>> all the money on wasted medical expenses not to mention the court
>>> expenses
>>> that these "legal" drugs incur, I am damn sure that the money wasted on
>>> alcohol related crime and illness and driving accidents plus the medical
>>> procedures to repair smokers far outweigh the cost of stopping people
>>> smoking marijuana, which I must say is what this newsgroup is all about
>>> and
>>> not the hard drugs that you are bellyaching about. Bet you won't try to
>>> stop
>>> all the tobacco and alcohol companies from selling their products to
>>> save a
>>> hell of a lot more people that fall by the wayside because of their
>>> "legal"
>>> products, or are you too afraid of what taxes that you may be losing.

>>
>> We could outlaw fast food too. That would save a lot of money.
>>
>> But the debate isn't about fast foods is it.
>>

>>> On one
>>> hand you are lynching people for using drugs and should spend heaps of
>>> money
>>> testing people, but on the otherhand you don't mind "legal" drugs taking
>>> their toll not only on peoples lives but the windfall of all the money
>>> that
>>> the "legal" drugs bring in,

>>
>> That's a good point... The legal drugs do offset some of their impact
>> with tax revenue.
>>

>>> so all in all you too are encouraging selling
>>> drugs, just because they are deemed "legal" that do just as much damage
>>> if
>>> not more as "hard" drugs do. Lets test all people for nicotine and
>>> alcohol
>>> as well.

>>
>> Nicotine users never kill someone because of cigarettes. Alcohol users
>> sometimes do, but as a percentage it is very low. Illegal drugs users
>> also sometimes kill someone but the distrubution for illegal drugs is
>> a blood bath.
>>
>> You make me laugh with that, the debate is using drugs and testing,
>> buying a couple of joints or a sack of grass resulting in a
>> bloodbath....hahahahahaha.

> xxxx
> Your denial is amazing......
> Weed killings happen all the time. It's just another part of the drug
> culture
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