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NutmegYankee

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3. Why not address the reason why people use drugs in the first place?

Reply to luckyleftyme2 (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 22, 2016, 03:56 PM

Feb 2016

Why is it they need to escape the shitty reality that is their life?

The current approach - The war on drugs - is lost. It's like the Fuhrer rallying his troops near the Fuhrer bunker in the last days of the battle of Berlin.

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Region still in the grip of deadly heroin addiction [View all] NutmegYankee Jan 2016 OP

Legal heroin would be in a reliable dosage Warpy Jan 2016 #1

IT IS EXPANDING ALL OVER NEW ENGLAND luckyleftyme2 Feb 2016 #2

Why not address the reason why people use drugs in the first place? NutmegYankee Feb 2016 #3