From: Jack Hollis on
On Fri, 07 May 2010 12:26:57 -0500, bknight(a)conramp.net wrote:

>Most of those who now abuse
>alcohol would probably use hard drugs if they were legal.

All things being equal (both legal) they'd be much better off abusing
heroin.
From: Jack Hollis on
On Fri, 07 May 2010 12:30:47 -0500, bknight(a)conramp.net wrote:

>>> I've had two friends die from drugs. One with coke, one meth. Our society
>>> would end as we know it if these drugs were ever legalized.
>>
>>What complete and utter bullshit..
>
>Why is it bullshit? Of course our society would
>change....drastically. That's the same as "end as we know it".
>
>BK

I agree that society would change drastically except it would change
for the better.
From: bknight on
On Fri, 07 May 2010 20:50:47 -0400, Jack Hollis <xsleeper(a)aol.com>
wrote:

>On Fri, 07 May 2010 11:30:25 -0500, bknight(a)conramp.net wrote:
>
>>So open the flood gate of legal drugs TO MILLIONS WHO MIGHT THEN DO
>>HARM TO OTHERS.
>
>It's an assumption that legalization would increase drug use.

Legalized drugs will be far less expensive which validates that
assumption.
>Fact is that drugs are easily available to anyone who wants them. Right now,
>it's easier for a High School kid to get illegal drugs than alcohol.

Ridiculous Jack. All a kid needs for alcohol is a fake ID, or one
person of age to buy it...at hundreds of stores anywhere in his
hometown. To get drugs is far more difficult and expensive.

>So the idea that legalization would increase drug use is by no means a
>proven hypothesis.

> And even if it did, most people who try drugs, or alcohol, never develop a problem.

Alcoholism is rampant, and drug use is far more entrapping.

BK
From: bknight on
On Fri, 07 May 2010 20:55:04 -0400, Jack Hollis <xsleeper(a)aol.com>
wrote:

>On Fri, 07 May 2010 12:01:06 -0500, bknight(a)conramp.net wrote:
>
>>It's insane to give such freedom when you are assured that it will, in
>>fact, cause harm to others. Your opinion would be different if a
>>loved one was killed by someone driving a car while high on cocaine.
>>If not, you're certainly in the minority.
>>
>>BK
>
>Just because cocaine is legal doesn't mean that driving under the
>influence of cocaine would be legal. Alcohol is legal.

You aren't thinking very straight. Driving under the influence of
either is illegal now. Why would that change?

BK
From: bknight on
On Fri, 07 May 2010 17:58:05 -0700, Alan Baker <alangbaker(a)telus.net>
wrote:

>In article <22d9u5p6vjeupjfdpkeot2g5h89oc7ns9j(a)4ax.com>,
> Jack Hollis <xsleeper(a)aol.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 07 May 2010 11:30:25 -0500, bknight(a)conramp.net wrote:
>>
>> >So open the flood gate of legal drugs TO MILLIONS WHO MIGHT THEN DO
>> >HARM TO OTHERS.
>>
>> It's an assumption that legalization would increase drug use. Fact is
>> that drugs are easily available to anyone who wants them. Right now,
>> it's easier for a High School kid to get illegal drugs than alcohol.
>> So the idea that legalization would increase drug use is by no means a
>> proven hypothesis. And even if it did, most people who try drugs, or
>> alcohol, never develop a problem.
>
>Yup.
>
>And currently, almost every seller of alcohol has a strong incentive not
>to sell to minors: the threat of losing one's license to sell alcohol.
>
>Drug sellers have no such incentive not to sell to children.

As you are wont to say "LOL".

BK