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	Drugs and Crime

AtlLiberal

7-2-2008 12:30 PM

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drugs, policy, prohibition

AtlLiberal says:

Scraping the insane drug laws which make it profitable for criminals to engage in drugs in the first place would be a great start. Admit it's a medical and not a legal problem. Turn the resources to that end that are now squandered on law enforcement.

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7-2-2008 8:54 PM

Silkweaver

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