XPost: alt.education, alt.true-crime, pdx.general   
   XPost: or.politics   
   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   "nimue"  wrote:   
      
   > Lobby Dosser wrote:   
   >> "nimue"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Lobby Dosser wrote:   
   >>>> "nimue"  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> So, you think someone who smokes pot once every few months is just   
   >>>>> as much a drug abuser as a crackhead who gets  high every single   
   >>>>> day? For you, what determines a drug's potential for abuse is its   
   >>>>> status as legal or illegal -- right?  So, I guess by that   
   >>>>> reasoning, you can't abuse alcohol.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> [Drug abuse: the misuse of drugs, alcohol or other substances,   
   >>>> usually a form of addiction. Law enforcement officials, among   
   >>>> others, often define drug abuse as "any" use of illegal drugs,   
   >>>> whether or not use is actually harmful to the user or to anyone   
   >>>> else.]   
   >>>   
   >>> Is that how YOU define it?   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Doesn't make any difference how I define it.   
   >   
   > I want to know how YOU define it -- that's the difference.  You're   
   > talking to me and I want to know how you define it.  Dodger.   
   >   
      
   Abuse: Use of a substance to the extent it is harmful to the user or the   
   user could bring harn to others while under its infuence.   
      
   Crime: Use of any amount of any substance defined as illegal.   
      
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