"Arthur Dent" <uce@fcc.gov> wrote in message
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>> Arthur Dent <uce@fcc.gov> wrote in article
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>> > I don't care if my mechanic smokes a little dope on week-ends...as long
>> as
>> > he isn't high when he's fixing my car.
>> >
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>> So, you figure the dope that the dope smokes Sunday night is totally
>> cleared from his system on Monday morning, and has absolutely no effect
>> on
>> his motor or reasoning skills while he is working on the brakes of the
>> vehicle in which your wife and kids ride????
>
> No worse than the bonehead who goes out and gets puking drunk and is so
> hung-over he can barely remember his own name. You are always going to
> have
> people who abuse something whether it it a legally obtained substance such
> as alcohol or prescription narcotics, or [currently] illegally obtained
> pharmaceuticals. There is no way of stopping it short of outlawing every
> single substance that offers a physiological/psychological effect that
> people seek, and watching every single person 24 hours a day in a strictly
> controlled police state. And who will watch the watchers (to steal a
> phrase,
> and to refer to the previously posted links to articles referencing
> illegal
> actions by law enforcement officers)?
>
> Allow legal retail purchases just like alcohol and cigarettes at
> reasonable
> prices and your illegal market goes the way of the bootleggers, sure,
> there
> are still a few of those around but it isn't really that big a problem.
> Not
> only could the massive amounts of tax dollars being spent on
> investigations
> and housing prisoners whose only crime is smoking a little dope or
> snorting
> some coke be put to a better use (like back in our pockets), but the
> additional tax revenue gained would offset and allow decreases in other
> current revenue sources (like personal income taxes and real estate
> taxes).
>
> We already have laws in place to penalize those whose impaired behavior
> presents a danger to others, they just need to be enforced even-handedly
> across the board.
>
Way Too Many People Can NOT Partake in Moderation.
Even when it is already illegal to partake in the first place.
Just like drunks, pot heads and drug addicts quickly reach the point where
there is no line between weekend use and everyday use, or on the job use.
If these "upstanding citizens" can't control themselves, who can?
An Oregon lawmaker Kelley Wirth indicted on meth possession charge.
http://www.katu.com/salem/story.asp?ID=80767
NM Judge Arrested For Cocaine
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/006730.html
Lawyer Arrested in Drug Sweep
http://www.witntv.com/home/headlines/1121911.html
Lawyer suspended over drug use
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast...sa.shirt.reut/
Las Vegas Police: Officer Arrested, Faces Felony Drug
http://www.drugwar.com/plasvegasdrugcop.shtm
Police Officer Arrested in Pine Bluff Drug Raid
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0206/299615.html
Police Officer Arrested For Falsifying Oxycontin Prescriptions
http://www.ryar.org/news/08-15-05.html
Clackamas County Sheriff's deputy, David Verbos, 36, is accused in the
indictment of holding-up the Mid Valley Bank located in Wilsonville as well
as armed robberies at various area stores including the pharmacies at the
McMinnville Bi-Mart and Wilsonville Target stores as well as a quick-cash
outlet in Newberg.
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/storie...d.ac3f549.html
Sheriff Sergeant Arrested and Fired for Drug Theft
http://www.montcnty.com/index.php?page=powell
Oklahoma City Police Officer Arrested On Drug Complaints
http://www.kotv.com/main/home/storie...age=1&id=75219
Union police officer arrested on drug charge
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.as...9&nav=0RaPWFEQ
