From: J. Daugherty (daugh@home.msen.com)
Date: Sun Dec 29 1996 - 05:26:18 MST
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From: The Low Willow[SMTP:phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu]
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 1996 2:49 PM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Re: The Second American Civil War
On Dec 22, 1:59pm, Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote:
} respect that. But it has to stop. Have you ever read O'Rourke's
} description of a crack neighborhood?
I have lived in crack neighborhoods. Most of the problems were do the fact that crack users could not afford their habit. If cocaine were legal it would be dirt cheap and not provoke the robbery, gang warfare, slavery, kidnapping, forced prostitution, crack houses, destruction of neighborhoods, etc. that it does now. [By the way, it is the brutal police raids on "crack houses" that destroys most of the property!]
People who use too much and go "raving paranoid" would be primarily a danger only to themselves and those who choose to associate with them. Excessive cocaine use via crack or otherwise would soon result in death or reform if the substance was cheap. Because it is so expensive the the habit lasts for many years of excalating crime, pushing, etc..
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