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Grex > Agora56 > #125: Kludge Report Part C -- Die, You Little Black Babies | |
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tod
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response 185 of 331:
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Feb 28 21:47 UTC 2006 |
re #184
Are you saying that a morphine addict is less likely to turn into a thieving
derelict to support their habit? A heroin junky is going to stay employed
as long as a boozer? I very highly doubt that.
As for drinking and driving, I think a heroin junky wouldn't even be able to
sit up in the driver's seat let alone drive it. I wouldn't condone driving
in either case, anyway.
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happyboy
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response 186 of 331:
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Feb 28 21:50 UTC 2006 |
re183:
i find it funny that you cited something coming from
a republican polling firm
why are they to be believed?
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nharmon
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response 187 of 331:
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Feb 28 22:05 UTC 2006 |
They're not. I found it confusing and interesting that a republican
polling firm would bias a poll in favor of pro-choice by defining it
as including people who believed in taking away that choice during the
later 2/3rds of a pregnancy.
Maybe it was a ploy to make pro-life look invincible. I dunno.
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richard
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response 188 of 331:
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Feb 28 22:17 UTC 2006 |
re #185 tod yes I am, alcohol is a more addictive and more debilitating drug
than many drugs that are illegal. Plenty of people can use hard drugs and
participate properly in society, just as many people can be drunks and do so.
Sherlock Holmes was a morphine addict ya know, and he did best crime solving
while he was sitting at Baker Street getting high :)
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richard
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response 189 of 331:
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Feb 28 22:28 UTC 2006 |
why for instance shouldn't marijuana be legal? its less addictive than
alcohol or nicotine. marijuana doesn't cause psoriasis of the liver, it
doesn't cause cancer. Its a painkiller but not as strong as Alleve. Why
shouldn't be legal?
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edina
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response 190 of 331:
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Feb 28 22:28 UTC 2006 |
Wow - you can tell you live on the East Coast....just wait - a meth lab will
soon open near you!!
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happyboy
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response 191 of 331:
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Feb 28 22:44 UTC 2006 |
richard, smoking pot doesn't cause cancer or emphysema?
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richard
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response 192 of 331:
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Feb 28 22:50 UTC 2006 |
re #190 you don't need a meth lab, you can buy the cold medicines over the
counter and cook the stuff yourself
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scholar
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response 193 of 331:
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Feb 28 22:51 UTC 2006 |
look at the studies.
it very well may not cause cancer.
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scholar
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response 194 of 331:
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Feb 28 22:53 UTC 2006 |
slip. :(
re. 190: with what?
in other words... without a meth lab?!
also, uh, i think generally, uh, the thought is that, uh, most people wouldn't
be able to make methamphetamine on their own. :(
methcathione, though!
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edina
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response 195 of 331:
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Feb 28 22:54 UTC 2006 |
Re 192 True. Which is why you can't buy more than two boxes of sudafed at
at time here in AZ now. Meth is a *huge* problem out here, and it's only a
matter of time before it's going full tilt, nationwide. Heck, on the cover
of my hometown newspaper (The Tecumseh Herald), there was an article about
a meth lab being busted.
I tend to find illegal drugs to be a horrid problem in this country, and
what's sad is that I have no real clue as to how to go about ending it.
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scholar
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response 196 of 331:
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Feb 28 22:55 UTC 2006 |
what problems do you envision methamphetamine causing you?
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tod
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response 197 of 331:
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Feb 28 22:56 UTC 2006 |
I tend to find illegal drugs to be a horrid problem in this country, and
what's sad is that I have no real clue as to how to go about ending it.
The country or the epidemic? >:)
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rcurl
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response 198 of 331:
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Feb 28 23:04 UTC 2006 |
Re #188: I think it was usually cocaine.
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edina
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response 199 of 331:
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Feb 28 23:07 UTC 2006 |
Re 196 They cause problems in my life indirectly as I volunteer with three
kids whose parents are meth addicts.
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nharmon
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response 200 of 331:
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Feb 28 23:13 UTC 2006 |
I think if drugs were legalized, they would lose their appeal to the
rebel burnouts and probably not be a problem any more. Of course, you'll
always have people who sniff gasoline and choke themselves.
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scholar
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response 201 of 331:
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Feb 28 23:46 UTC 2006 |
Re. 199: Volunteering for a position that is set up to have you deal with
people who have problems with something is hardly going to give you a very
good idea of how it works when someone doesn't have a problem with that thing!
Nonetheless, we can be sure that the real problem here is BAD PARENTING. The
parents of these children had a CHOICE to use methamphetamine in whatever way
has caused their children trouble. Such people would be bad parents,
regardless of how much 'methamphetamine' (whatever THAT is) they've smoked.
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cyklone
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response 202 of 331:
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Feb 28 23:54 UTC 2006 |
Richard, please shut up. Everytime you post something you set back the cause
of liberalism with your demonstrations of ignorance. And BTW, I think
"psoriasis of the liver" is easily cured. Just chug a bottle of shampoo. Or
in your case, anti-freeze.
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scholar
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response 203 of 331:
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Mar 1 00:32 UTC 2006 |
:(
I'm a terrible person. :(
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richard
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response 204 of 331:
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Mar 1 01:24 UTC 2006 |
re #202 uh, obviously meant cirrosis of the liver. I was typing too
fast before.
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richard
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response 205 of 331:
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Mar 1 01:26 UTC 2006 |
And I agree with edina that there really is no good solution to the
drug problem. I also agree with what someone else posted, that there
is a culture surrounding drugs where part of the attraction is the
drugs being illegal, and hard to get. Legalize it and you take away
some of the mystique
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mcnally
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response 206 of 331:
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Mar 1 01:41 UTC 2006 |
re #204: having goofed once, I'd've looked it up the second time.
"cirrhosis" has an "h" in it..
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scholar
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response 207 of 331:
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Mar 1 01:47 UTC 2006 |
fo shure
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richard
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response 208 of 331:
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Mar 1 01:53 UTC 2006 |
re #206 it can be spelled either way.
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slynne
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response 209 of 331:
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Mar 1 02:16 UTC 2006 |
resp:185 It looks like a prescription heroin program is being started in
Vancouver so I guess we might all get to find out if heroin junkies
function better than alcoholics or other drug addicts. Based on past
heroin prescription programs, I think there is at least some evidence to
support that.
Personally, I think that most substances should be legal but also that
some effort should go into educating people about the actual
consequences of taking drugs (including over the counter drugs,
nicotine, caffeine, etc. I think some recreational drugs should be sold
under similar regulations as alcohol and others, perhaps, should only be
available by prescription.
Legalizing drugs will not make the drug problem go away any more than
legalizing alcohol has made alcohol problems go away. What it would do
is free up a lot of resources that are currently being devoted to
enforcing drug laws. It also would allow for more regulation of
substances. But trust me, there will still be a lot of abuse and
addiction.
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