XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   On 09/08/2010 02:23 PM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   > "SaPeIsMa"  wrote in   
   > news:3I-dnZFMcNqSeBrRnZ2dnUVZ_sidnZ2d@bright.net:   
   >   
   >> "RD Sandman"  wrote in message   
   >> news:Xns9DEC80ABF1E54hopewell@216.196.97.131...   
   >>> Peter Franks  wrote in   
   >>> news:i63tp3$7dr$1@news.eternal-september.org:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I have no problem decriminalizing drugs, however a couple of things   
   >>>> need to be addressed:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 1) How do you protect the children from exposure to drugs (or any   
   >>>> controlled substance for that matter)?  My suggestion is to increase   
   >>>> the penalties for supplying controlled substances to minors,   
   >>>> including alcohol.   
   >>>   
   >>> Yep.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> You protect them the same way you do for other dangerous things   
   >>      EDUCATION.   
   >   
   > I agree, but my response above was directed at increasing penalties for   
   > supplying controlled substances to minors.   
   >   
   >>>> 2) If someone choose to voluntarily take an intoxicating drug, then   
   >>>> they are immediately and effectively responsible for all of their   
   >>>> actions, no matter how impaired.  Any negative impact to others   
   >>>> (read: accident) shall be treated as (attempted) first-degree murder   
   >>>> and dealt with appropriately, including the death penalty.   
   >>>   
   >>> I wouldn't go that far, but I would make them responsible in every   
   >>> way I could for whatever injuries resulted from that drug use.   
      
   	Include alcohol?   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Including their long-term health issues.   
   >   
   > Yep.   
   >   
   >> For example if you smoke, all smoking related ilnesses are NOT covered   
   >> by your Medicare/Medicaid/Obamacare.   
   >   
   > Bingo!  Exception for smoking (drug) cessation activities.   
   >   
      
   	I am not in favor of the use of tobacco but I think we   
   have enough people already dying slowly in the streets and on   
   the sidewalks so I don't think any illness should be excluded   
   just because some fool brought it on themselves.   
      
   	later   
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