[87540] in Cypherpunks
Re: The War on Drugs--Surrender! / Re: INFO-RUSS: Reuter: Russian+Russian Drug C
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Thu Oct 2 09:57:40 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 97 08:17:02 EDT
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.971002194809.409G-100000@shirley>
Reply-To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:
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> On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Anonymous wrote:
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> > Legalize drugs!
> > The War on Drugs *created* all of the current problems in this area
> > by making minute amounts of forbidden substances worth more than
> > precious metals.
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> I have to aggry with Anon here, the legalisation of drugs combined with a
> harm minimisation program has a good chance in resulting in less deaths
> and crime.
Check out the fairly successful Swiss program, distributing heroin cheaply
to registered addicts.
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