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Firstly, let me offer my condolences regarding your childhood.
Taxes are rarely the solution to any problem. Allowing producers to offer their drugs in the free market will both create huge profits and huge public pressure to offer treatment options to their consumer base. (Just like big tobacco.)
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Your liberalism is showing :p
But really, why can't we move past the name calling and just focus on a very real issue. The war on drugs is too expensive. Rampant, unregulated drug use is clearly not a viable option (google the effects of opium in China). We, conservatives, moderates, and liberals, need to work together to find a viable compromise.
BTW, I am one of those conservatives that needs small, decentralized government (as the Constitution guaranties me).
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Drug use is detrimental to the progression of a society, but the excessive cost of blanket prohibition is far more so. We need to find a balanced policy which can mitigate the damage done by both the "War on Drugs" and rampant drug abuse. The free market has long been America's method of choice for finding balance, so lets move the less lethal drugs out of the black market to allow the free market forces of educated consumer choice and supplier branding dictate our society's view of drugs and the people who use them.
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