I worked with addicts as well in a professional and personal setting and I completely disagree with you. I think you are confusing issues and it is hard not to when someone close to you has a drug problem. Drugs are illegal now and yet they are really really easy to get (hence your personal experience), especially when someone is an addict (they have drug-radar or something) -- and when people get caught there is a whole mess of money spent rangling them around that could be spent on more violent crime or more annoying crime like break-ins (we don't have ANY of those here in somerville). Last, I have never seen a clinical study (that isn't being paid for by a propaganda group) that showed 1. Smoking pot leads to drug addition (was it the pot smoking that led to the crack smoking or the addictive personality and depressed life?) 2. Keeping marijuana illegal deterrs use
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Date: 2008-09-25 01:33 pm (UTC)I worked with addicts as well in a professional and personal setting and I completely disagree with you. I think you are confusing issues and it is hard not to when someone close to you has a drug problem. Drugs are illegal now and yet they are really really easy to get (hence your personal experience), especially when someone is an addict (they have drug-radar or something) -- and when people get caught there is a whole mess of money spent rangling them around that could be spent on more violent crime or more annoying crime like break-ins (we don't have ANY of those here in somerville). Last, I have never seen a clinical study (that isn't being paid for by a propaganda group) that showed 1. Smoking pot leads to drug addition (was it the pot smoking that led to the crack smoking or the addictive personality and depressed life?) 2. Keeping marijuana illegal deterrs use