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2009-03-26 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-03-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 One missing picture is that of the "Death Saint"

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-03-26 12:15|| 2009-03-26 12:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Comment which made the most sense to me.

Crystal meth destroys people's lives whether it is legal or illegal. Would you raise your child to use meth, coke, heroin?

It's a tough philosophical issue in a society dedicated to personal freedom: do you have the right to destroy yourself?

Drugs all have some symbolic "second-hand smoke." We are getting tough on cigarettes, why would we loosen the reins on other things?

So even if you have the right to destroy yourself, should there be limits on how much damage you can do to others?

Meanwhile, right now, the drugs in question are illegal, and Americans are funding the drug cartels, quite nicely. Wealthy Americans who can afford these habits are funding the drug cartels. Why shouldn't we talk about that? Are we fixing the retirement funds of wealthy Americans so they can afford their own and their kids' drug habits?

How would legalizing party drugs make them less lethal?

Just like a tablesaw doesn't care if you are a good or bad person it just cuts, meth won't care if its legal or not, it just is. Friend of mine has lucid memories when he was a kid about his mom and boyfriend(s) smokin smokin. Friend is pretty screwed up, but it is on legal alcohol. Now he's in cali so he can do his habit and still get money for rent.

Here's my (the inevitable) take: Addicts don't want help, that is why they are addicts. Wife make me watch a show where famous people with the best help available still relapse. Famous people, especially musicians, glamorize drug use. Many people don't do drugs/as much drugs because they are not available at the corner px. My neighbor has every right to have a dog, but when that dogs gets into my yard and tears it up and scares the kid it becomes my problem - that is it no longer is just neighbor's choice but now I lose my time trying to fix or at least contain neighbor's lack of responsability.

I understand work hard play hard - IMHO smoke and booze are only as dangerous as the person using them (celebrate a victory fine but get on the road or wanna scrap then you're over the line Smokey), but as an employer if one of my employees gets hooked, especially on something as incideous as rock, then suddenly they don't show up for work or get the job done. Can't fire 'em not just because of unemployment penalties but its a medical condition hence descrimination. So now I'm paying an employee to not work.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-03-26 12:35|| 2009-03-26 12:35|| Front Page Top

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