Idiot 9th Circuit Judges Owned Again

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LunarRay

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It seems to me that from the previous posts there has been some qualifiers attached to some drugs.. some are bad for you. I guess we should define what Drugs am.. I suppose we could say anything that the FDA say's is is. But, we ought to confine it to "A chemical substance, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen, that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often addiction."

So! We have some 'drugs' that fit that definition that can be beneficial and can be harmfull to the consumer.. but, it ain't the consumer that Society really has a focus on, is it.. it is the collateral damage that drug 'abusers' cause society. We go to the expense of hiring police to catch them, courts to try them, jails to house them, insurance companies to reimburse the victims of their thefts, and from time to time we try to rehabilitate them. And this is just the consumer of illicit 'drugs'. Why not give drugs away free.. we'd put the supplier out of business, eliminate all crimes that occur to pay for the 'drugs' and we could put some of the money into effective treatment regimes.
We are not going to stop the abuser of drugs no more than the abuser of alcohol.. so why try other than extend a helping hand to those seeking help and in fact help..
 

Zebo

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Originally posted by: Corn

Obviously you must still be high, otherwise you wouldn't support unfettered immigration. :D

The neo-cons are maybe starting to convince me Corn, that low prices are a good thing for consumers to enjoy. So I fiqure lots of new labor competitors (aliens) will drive down consumer prices much like free-trade has done.
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But really I was showing hypocrisy of the free-traders, who all happen to be anti-immigration but won't admit it, really don?t believe in the customer enjoying the benefits of low prices when they're the one working on the cheap, but they are perfectly happy seeing people here competing with unemployed people in China and India.;)



Edited for spelling: hypocrisy.