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In reply to the discussion: New York Journal News Publishes Gun Owners' Names In Westchester, Rockland Counties [View all]Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)120. Go natural, avoid the nasty chemicals and the industrialized drugs...
Coca tea, not cocaine or meth.
Poppy concoctions, not heroin or Oxycodone or Vicodin.
Marijuana, not all those pharmaceuticals.
Smoked tobacco, not some weird industrialized nico-heroin powder. (What we do to opium poppy and coca.)
Mushrooms, not Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
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Would meth user still use meth if they had decent substitutes? I knew a Belgian drug activist meth user who switched over to prescribed oral amphetamines under a doctor's care and seemed to maintain for a long time. I've also heard of studies where they are trying Adderall (or is it Ritalin?) in a sort of amphetamine maintenance therapy approach to meth users, but I don't know how they've turned out or if they've even concluded.
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onehandle
Dec 2012
OP
I agree at this point. If they owned dangerous wildlife like tigers and such, they'd have to
kestrel91316
Dec 2012
#1
That's only because human beings are smarter than ducks, rabbits, pigs, or whatever?!
harmonicon
Dec 2012
#129
Did they need a "permit" to exercise that right? - or any other except the 2nd?
askeptic
Dec 2012
#117
OMG! Who would have ever imagined that homes might contain things worth stealing!?
onehandle
Dec 2012
#6
my friend is detective on city PD. He never worked a breakin or invasion of a dog owner
pasto76
Dec 2012
#14
these guns owners are NOT private information, they are public records - your comparison
msongs
Dec 2012
#62
Should those nuts screaming outside of abortion clinics be legally barred from doing so?
harmonicon
Dec 2012
#37
I didn't say anything about joining the NRA - I don't know where you got that from.
harmonicon
Dec 2012
#130
I can't really think of many drugs that don't involve using nasty chemicals in their production.
harmonicon
Dec 2012
#75
Eventually attrition solves that problem, in a hypothetical decriminalized society.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#89
No, they're going to do whatever it takes to stop an intruder, of course
customerserviceguy
Dec 2012
#144
Absolutely. Some years ago a criminal gang was discovered that used NSSA's annual report on
jody
Dec 2012
#22
"guns get up and shoot the burglars"? Obviously NO, guns don't get up and commit a crime.
jody
Dec 2012
#53
IMO traditional crimes including that with firearms are committed by people who are different than
jody
Dec 2012
#107
A Chinese co-worker once told me something quite profound about life in an authoritarian state
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#102
DU doesn't allow the posting of certain personal information, but DU isn't a newspaper.
harmonicon
Dec 2012
#61
The US Department of Justice pins the number of lawful defensive gun uses
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#105
And is my life more in danger if my neigbour doesn't own a killing device at all?
harmonicon
Dec 2012
#52
Also, people who may have been living in anonymous locations to evade abusive
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#73
What about a domestic violance victim, whom has been hiding from a violent ex???
virginia mountainman
Dec 2012
#63
Rebecca Shaeffer was murdered in 1989 by a stalker who got her address from the California DMV
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#104
Thats you, many folks, realize that the cops tend to only take reports...
virginia mountainman
Dec 2012
#92
Here is a sample of the kinds of public information about author Dwight R. Worley that ANYONE...
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#101
reprehensible invasion of privacy and the cheerleaders should be ashamed of themselves
Alamuti Lotus
Dec 2012
#115
Good Analogy - What if they recorded your vote for public disclosure (the gun) in a database?
askeptic
Dec 2012
#131