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Re:A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son by alexeisadeski3 on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @03:13PM (#7939849)
Prohibition 101:

1. The act being prohibited is nonviolent; injecting heroin, for example, involves zero violence.

2. The prohibition itself creates the violent black market organizations; if heroin were legal, the black market organizations wouldn't exist.

3. Thus yes, nonviolent laws.

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Re:A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son by chc on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @03:51PM (#7940118)
This is true to some degree, though I think legalizing many drugs would still not take away a large portion of the associated criminality. People with bad coke or meth addictions just don't care very much who they hurt.
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Re:A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son by alexeisadeski3 on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @04:03PM (#7940206)
Hurting people is already illegal.
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Re:A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son by chc on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @05:31PM (#7940797)
Yes? Why are you telling me this?
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