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some common ground here

Submitted January 14, 2005 - 7:06 pm by Don Henry Ford Jr.
Finally, the term "legalization" means different things to different people. Alcohol and tobacco are "legalized" but the quality of those drugs is also regulated, and there are still "dry towns" and "wet towns" in various states of the Republic: a policy, really, of local autonomy or "home rule" that I believe is the solution to the prohibition problem. There indeed can be regulation hand-in-hand with "legalization" and one need look no farther than the pharmaceutical industry to see both good and bad in that concept.

Here I think we are on the same page. A drink of tea made from coca leaf or perhaps some raw opium is quite different than the distilled powder form of these drugs.

Take tobacco for intstance. A lot of people smoke it and do OK. But if you concentrate the nicotene from one pack and inject it into your body, you will die.

I see cocaine and heroin in similar light.

You point out an interesting thing. I did quit cocaine--probably because I had enough of it--about 500 grams of pure stuff to bury my head into. I soon reached the point where it was either quit or die. I gave away the last four ounces to get the shit out of my sight.

Most never have enough to come to this conclusion. Some that do don't survive the experience.

(I don't know if it's true, but I once heard a Colombian claim that more Colombians die smoking American tobacco each year than Americans snorting Colombian cocaine.)

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