Texpat , this is for you

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Originally Posted by Agent_Smith

Legalize, regulate, educate--just like all the other "vices".

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Societies have the legalize and regulate bit pretty much worked out. The educate part is pretty much left to the marketing efforts of industries which produce the "vice" products and services. Odd innit?:confused:

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Originally Posted by Norton

The educate part is pretty much left to the marketing efforts of industries which produce the "vice" products and services.

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And the efforts of "anti" pressure groups and lobbies, which often find a way into government institutions. ;)
The pseudo-scientific anti-smoking campaigns are a primary example.

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Originally Posted by Texpat

How many lives were saved because the drugs were gone?

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Nice rhetoric.
The lives terminated or destroyed by extrajudicial killings are researchable fact.

What does "saved lives" mean? People who would have died from overdosis in years to come? People who would have become addicted but haven't?