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Thanks for your overly simplistic (and out of touch with the scientific evidence that drug addiction is a genetically-based mental illness) response. If you spent half as much time as you spend posting here researching what doctors and scientists have discovered about the biological basis of drug addiction, you might understand it better.
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Weren't you just complaining about people being mean? I'm trying to do people a favor and keep them alive. You got a problem with that?
Overly simplistic? As compared to what, throwing out "this should be legal", with no plan whatsoever for making it so?
And I don't think I can read this into your words, but are you saying that someone is predisposed to pick up that illegal substance the first time? If so, my lord, how many other crimes can't the offenders help committing?
And are you seriously complaining about my post count? If you spent half a second in an inner city neighborhood watching what subsidies have done, you'd have another reason to oppose subsidies. Are you passing on the truth here to justify your own actions?
In any case, there is no need for me to explain why people become repeat offenders. If people just refused to put that needle in their arm the first time (i.e., if they obey the law in this regard), they wouldn't die of injectable heroin ODs. Is putting the needle in the arm the first time something people are predisposed to do? How 'bout rape and murder? How many other things do we give people a pass on?
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How do you know? There is plenty of evidence that drug addiction is inherited and also influenced by environment. Many drug addicts were raised by parents (or at least one parent) who were alcoholics or drug addicts themselves.
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You must be talking about the 15 or 20% that I don't feel sorry for. Please tell me you aren't saying something about your own upbringing here though.
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Heroin is an incredibly dangerous drug to become addicted to. I feel incredibly sorry for anyone who does become addicted to that drug. However, heroin is even more dangerous because its purity is not regulated by the government.
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Another federal boondoggle? I'm in favor of legalization, but I better think about that some more now.
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