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Default Booze deregulation leads to 11% drop in violent crime

wrote:
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> brian
> > the single best way to reduce alcohol-related mayhem is to allow open
> > sales and use of other intoxicants. all the young lads who cause most
> > of the problems would be much better off smoking cannabis rather than
> > alcohol.

>
> Of course, there will be more violence due to other drugs. What if the
> lads' favourite turns out to be crack instead of dope?


not bloody likely -- drug users exhibit very strong tendencies in the
drugs they use, and some of them (like crack, heroin and pcp) are just
*extremely* unpopular:

http://www.briancbennett.com/charts/big-pic/index.htm

b
--
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Marijuana: it's nowhere near as scary as they want you to think.
truth: the Anti-drugwar http://www.briancbennett.com

Nothing will ever change if we don't stand up for ourselves:
http://cannabisconsumers.org

"Cops say legalize drugs" ask them why:
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