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Old 03-08-2009, 04:17 PM  
tical
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Great input, Ben. So you're saying that the STIGMA of a drug is in proportion to the PRICING of that drug? If heroin were, unit for unit, the same price as pot, there'd be less incentive to rob or commit crime for the habit.

Other than pricing issues, is there any other basis for differentiation regarding social stigma?
If heroin was the same price as pot, heroin junkies would just have a bit more heroin before they ran out

Heroin is physically addicting, pot is not on the same level of heroin at all. It may be mentally addicting / habit forming... we're talking irritability vs physical pain when you don't have a drug.

Look at it like this... if your body is telling you it is starving and you are in extreme pain, you will steal bread to eat.
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