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Originally Posted by rubecube
It's like most substances that are addictive. I have friends who do it once in a while or just on the weekends and are fully functional members societies, and I have others who started using it and then turned into total addicts who you can't trust. I would say that those in the latter group also generally tend to be raging alcoholics and smokers, as well as the type who if they couldn't score cocaine would switch to meth or whatever else they could get their hands on. Addicts and people with compulsive tendencies are going to do what they do regardless of the legality. Might as well make it as safe as possible for them.
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Sounds to me like education and warning people about what can happen if you do coke is a FAR better option than thinking the penalty of throwing them in jail if they use is going to keep them from trying it.
At the VERY least it should be decriminalized if you are using.