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Legalize rape and child abuse too!!

In Reply to: Legalize it! posted by Calisha on October 22, 1999 at 16:44:36:

Because of drugs, what is happening right now? I will tell you. Right now, a child is being abused by a drug using parent. Right now, a woman (or a man) is being raped by a drug user. Right now, a woman is giving birth to a drug addicted baby. Right now, a drug user is committing a crime in a drug induced haze and will get away with it, no matter what the severity of the crime. Right now, food is being taken from the mouth of a hungry child to support someone's drug use. Right now, a family is mourning the death of a loved one who died from drugs. Right now, the AIDS virus and other lethal viruses are being spread by intravenous drug users. Right now, someone's life was taken away because someone needed to take drugs. Right now, a child is being born that will have birth defects due to parental drug use (and it doesn't even have to be from the mother-even if certain drugs were used in the past by either parent, the child still faces an increased rate of birth defects).

While you pro drug use people preach about the beauty of drugs, you are obviously overlooking the negative effects. You say that you want to have open minded experiences. How can you be open minded when you are ignoring what terrible things are happening in this world because of drugs? Maybe all of you need to spend some time in the wards of the hospitals that have to detoxify crack babies. Or would you argue that the baby born addicted to drugs, as sick as it is, is having a "mind expanding experience?" How about the classic defense in the judicial system of "I was too high to know that I did (insert heinous crime here)" and the criminal gets off with a minimal sentence? If you are so hell bent on mass drug use, then you should also be in favor of giving birth to a drug addicted child a serious crime, as well as eliminating the "I was too high to know that I did whatever I did, no matter how sick it was" defense and give drug users FULL SENTENCES instead of slapping them on the wrist. If you would just wake up out of your drug induced fairyland to see what you are causing on this earth maybe you would understand.

Follow Ups:

• You don't understand what we're trying to do. John My own United States November 19 1999 (0)
• Drug prohibition is the source of much crime, not drugs themselves. MDG November 10 1999 (1)
  • look at the cigarette and alcohol problem in high schools. lys canada November 19 1999 (0)
• the US has quite a bit to learn from the Dutch drug policy. attentat university of texas austin, tx November 10 1999 (1)
  • here it is. give it a look attentat (again) University of Texas amerikkka November 11 1999 (0)