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Originally Posted by JavaBlack";p="
Yes! Raise the taxes on cigarettes. These fools have shown that they will pay any price for their fix. If we tax them enough, maybe everyone else can get a tax break at the state level.
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Obviously I am not suggesting raising taxes on cigarettes is a complete solution, but used with a combination of other prevention measures, it may convince SOME people that smoking isn't worth the price, health wise or financially.
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Originally Posted by wonderflash11";p="
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Originally Posted by LadyLazarus";p="
No drugs should be illegal, including cigarettes.
Your grandfather killed himself. It's not the government's job to intervene in that.
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agreed.
drugs are legal in the Netherlands and it doesn't seem to be experiencing many problems. |
Yea, but the whole point of the war on drugs is to keep drugs off the streets and away from children. I have no problem with decriminalizing small amounts of marajuana for personal use, its when you start decriminalizing and legalizing hard drugs is when you actually make the problem of drug abuse worse not better.