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Originally posted by Agamemnon@May 25 2005, 10:43 PM
I bet drunk-drivers kill 10's of 1000's more people in the US than any/all (illegal) drug-related deaths.
I think taxing the snot out of cigarettes and liquor, and at the same time banning _very_ similar substances, is hypocritical. Either ban them all, or realize that many of them are here to stay.
Seriously, was the War on Drugs an actual effort to 'win the war'? If it was, it's failing... dismally. And I don't think it's because the old/current laws are too soft. It's because the demand is insatiable.
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And it is my personal Opinion that Alcohol and Smoking be banned since they are both terrible things.
If the government could ban Alcohol don't you think they would? In fact they *tried* to with prohibition, but the revolt against it was so strong that it was completely unenforcable.
If smoking hadn't been so mainstream, I'm sure it would have been illegal too.