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Maybe, but...

Tom Brosz — 8/1/2002 6:33:23 PM (archived)

So if cocaine is that lethally addictive, in the hundreds of years it was legally available, why didn't we become extinct? Where were the 1800's newspaper headlines about tens of millions of addicts lying in piles in the streets?

Maybe most people just stay away from the crap in the first place?

(visualizing two full books of collected Sherlock Holmes stories containing nothing but Holmes drooling on a couch...)

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Ashcroft Says Terrorism-Drug Trafficking Link 'Shocking' . . . - D. Spires - 7/31/2002 7:37:15 PM
- Profits on illegal drugs - Tom Brosz - 7/31/2002 9:37:35 AM
  - Well, you don't expect the gov't to do it. - Bowser - 7/31/2002 12:54:34 PM
    - I would take issue with this part - alcaray - 8/1/2002 5:18:51 PM
      - Re: I'd say that experiment . . . - D. Spires - 8/1/2002 6:35:43 PM
        
        Of course you are right - alcaray - 8/1/2002 7:50:00 PM
        
        Re: Well, just don't mix cocane and sugar . . . - D. Spires - 8/1/2002 8:22:40 AM
        
        Have you ever tried the punch at a Mormon wedding? They don't need the cocaine. ~8^O n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 8/1/2002 9:06:38 AM
      - And you'd be right. - Bowser - 8/1/2002 5:24:59 PM
        
        Maybe, but... - Tom Brosz - 8/1/2002 6:33:23 PM
        
        No "maybe, but". - Bowser - 8/1/2002 6:54:17 PM
        
        Re: That was a 7% Solution . . . ;^) (n/t) (n/t) - D. Spires - 8/1/2002 6:38:18 PM
    - Legalization - Tom Brosz - 7/31/2002 1:38:45 PM
      - Marijuana - Bowser - 7/31/2002 4:38:44 PM
        
        Re: Marijuana - Tom Brosz - 7/31/2002 5:26:34 PM
        
        It is interesting that the two agree on something like that. - ebnelson - 8/1/2002 12:13:39 PM
        
        Savage is indeed a Psycho Hose Beast - Tom Brosz - 8/1/2002 7:22:43 PM
        
        Well, showing indications of harmful effects is not that hard... - alcaray - 8/1/2002 4:53:50 PM
      - It should all be legal. Period. § (n/t) - ebnelson - 7/31/2002 3:14:42 PM
        
        Re: Then you might as well free the tobacco companies - SteveS - 7/31/2002 3:51:52 PM
        
        I doubt the doctor's opinions severely. - ebnelson - 8/1/2002 12:07:43 PM
        
        free the tobacco companies - Tom Brosz - 7/31/2002 4:34:37 PM
        
        Re: About jobs too - SteveS - 7/31/2002 5:16:00 PM
        
        Anyone on this bbs, and any of our kids could - ebnelson - 8/1/2002 3:24:15 PM
        
        Re: I'd have to agree . . . - D. Spires - 8/1/2002 3:32:00 PM
        
        Yes. Prohibition creates lots of jobs: - ebnelson - 8/1/2002 3:48:45 PM
        
        Re: They will still be around with legal drugs - SteveS - 8/1/2002 2:33:59 PM
        
        Re: The same can be said for other crimes, should we legalize them? - SteveS - 8/1/2002 2:11:29 PM
        
        Other crimes are not "victimless." - Tom Brosz - 8/1/2002 4:34:36 PM
        
        Re: Other crimes are not - SteveS - 8/1/2002 5:51:00 PM
        
        Re: Excuse me, but . . . - D. Spires - 8/2/2002 1:26:03 PM
        
        Re: Excuse me, but . . . - SteveS - 8/2/2002 6:22:59 PM
        
        Re: Excuse me, but . . . - Tom Brosz - 8/2/2002 5:55:05 PM
  - Re: Profits on illegal drugs - p - 7/31/2002 10:52:02 AM
- "Shocking", my foot. - Bowser - 7/31/2002 8:21:31 AM
  - Re: Reactionary . . . - D. Spires - 7/31/2002 9:33:25 AM
  - Re: CIA - Tom Brosz - 7/31/2002 9:27:20 AM
    - Tom, Tom, Tom........ - Do your homework - 7/31/2002 5:37:54 PM
    - Re: CIA - Bowser - 7/31/2002 1:36:43 PM
      - Re: CIA - Ignorance is Bliss - 7/31/2002 5:12:20 PM
        
        I submit before your detailed and insightful sources of information... - Tom Brosz - 7/31/2002 5:46:13 PM
      - Now you just confabulate. - ebnelson - 7/31/2002 3:13:29 PM
  - Re: - ebnelson - 7/31/2002 8:32:54 AM

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