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PeakTrader:

I’d say millions of alcholics are crime prone and millions aren’t.

The question is do we want several more million drug addicts, who are crime prone and several more million drug addicts, who aren’t?

I certainly wouldn’t want to own or run a liquor store, in part, because they get robbed so often, at gun point. However, they’re legal.

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Maybe, there should be amnesty for all non-violent traffic crimes.

Why make drunk driving a big deal when there are no victims?

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Morganovich, we went over that link in detail before, and obviously you learned nothing further, including it’s much cheaper to plea bargain for a reduced charge, rather than go to trial, most violent and property crimes are caused by drug users, and serious crime rates dropped like a rock, to 1963 levels, since the “War on Drugs” began.

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You may want to see this government link too (again):

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/ondcp-fact-sheets/marijuana-legalization

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"...under community supervision on parole and probation programs — where administrative violations, missed appointments, and failed drug tests send hundreds of thousands of drug offenders back to prison.”

Obviously, they have a problem obeying laws. Maybe, we should keep legalizing crimes, until we get them to obey laws.

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Morganovich, you make ridiculous statements faster than anyone can respond to them. So, here’s some causation:

Crack ‘epidemic’ fuels rise in violent crime
16 February 2002
The Guardian

“LONDON-The use of crack cocaine is soaring to epidemic levels, particularly among 14- to 18-year-olds, fuelling the recent dramatic rise in violent street crime.

Heroin addicts, previously identified as being responsible for the vast majority of property-related crime, traditionally fund their habits through activities such as burglary, breaking into parked cars, shoplifting and credit card fraud. Crack, however, leaves heavy users edgy, paranoid and dangerously desperate. Because of this they are more likely to get involved in violent, opportunist crimes such as mugging, mobile phone theft and carjacking.

The trade in the drug also generates its own violence, with victims of vicious assaults increasingly citing ‘crack debts’ as the reason they were attacked.

Of greatest concern to police and drug agencies is the evidence that dealers are helping to push the drug into new markets, particularly among clubbers and middle-class users, by marketing it in a more upmarket fashion.”

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People, like Morganovich and Ron, constantly give the impression a large portion of the prison population represents people who smoke a joint on their private property on weekends.

However, the reality is they are people who’ve typically committed many crimes (not just drug crimes), over time, before they were caught, convicted, and sentenced.

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I stated before, possession of small quantities of marijuana should be decriminalized to a ticket and a fine, to save resources and collect revenues for more serious crimes.

Also, we need to spend more on the “War on Drugs,” e.g. on rehabilitation and education (including to combat the pro-legalization propaganda).

The “War on Drugs” has been very effective, not only in stopping the steep rise in drug use, of the 1960s and 1970s, but also in reversing and containing it.

Spending $30 billion a year to prevent $300 billion a year in social costs, which include lost productivity, traffic & work injuries & fatalities, health problems & drug treatment, mental illness, unemployment, crime, domestic violence, child abuse, and other social services, has saved the country trillions of dollars, over the past few decades.

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Morganovich, I showed you data, many times, that completely contradict all your statements, and your ridiculous statements are here again!

Drug use exploded in the ’60s and ’70s. So, it was much more than a demographic shift. It was a cultural revolution, that spread like wildfire.

Congress overwhelmingly passed drug laws, in response to the epidemic, and those laws reversed drug use dramatically.

Drug laws have been effective everywhere. And, I answered your question over 10 times, in 10 different ways.

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http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/09/lets-end-the-drug-war-by-declaring-amnesty-on-all-drug-war-prisoners-currently-incarcerated-for-non-violent-drug-charges/#comments

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Marijuana Articles

http://alcoholism.about.com/od/pot/a/bldea050426.htm

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PeakTrader:

The efficacy of a drug makes the difference, whether you’re driving a car or on your property.

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You can drink a glass of wine and not get drunk. However, the only purpose of smoking a marijuana joint is to get high.

And, a drunk that’s also high on a drug is a powerful combination.

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