Yeah that'll work. Just legalize and encourage everybody. The country's already packed with junkies, so what's a few hundred/thousand/million more?

We sure wouldn't want to be doing anything to encourage GOOD behavior now, would we? That would be way too politically incorrect.

Did you read the article? That's exactly what they are doing, trying to encourage good behavior by treatment and rehabilitation instead of just throwing them in prison.

I know some good reading teachers if you want a tutor.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

My reading is fine. Would you like me to recommend a book or two about the difference between right and wrong? Some folks have trouble telling them apart.

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

― Plato

If it can be shown that the approach being tried in Portugal is more effective at bringing about improvement in the drug addiction phenomenon than prison sentences than perhaps the prison time thing is what is wrong.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

Alcohol is legal, do you get drunk every day? True, legalization may attract some new users on a trial basis. Part of the allure of drug use is the fact that it is illegal. That attraction will be lost once it's legal.

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'83 300D, 126K miles.

I haven't been drunk since I was in the Army over 42 years ago. Except for a German beer that I enjoyed with German food about a year ago, I haven't consumed any alcohol of any kind in over ten years.

Even so, does the fact that we already have an untold number of alcoholics make it a good idea to add an untold number of junkies? Yeah, that right there is some great logic. sounds like some more druggy logic.

We already have junkies. People with certain proclivities know where to get what they "need."

Junkies that are LESS likely to seek treatment than if drugs were legal since the consequences of admitting to drug use can involve prison and a criminal record.