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:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> 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.   
   >   
   > Okay.  So, if a person smokes pot once every few months, would you   
   > consider him a drug abuser?   
      
   Depends. If he smokes enough At The Time to be impaired and engages in   
   behavior that could be harmful to himself or others, then yes.   
      
   >>   
   >> Crime: Use of any amount of any substance defined as illegal.   
   >   
      
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