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Before we catagorize drugs as a victimless crime, consider Al Gore III who was arrested for the FIFTH time yesterday for multiple drug possessions. Here's a kid with all the advantages of rich and famous parents, plus a Harvard education, who is throwing his life away.
Plenty of not so rich and famous kids have also ended up dead through overdoses, suicides, ruining their kidneys or other organs or violent crime. And plenty of nice people in cities like Newark have been murdered or been victims of crime as fiends do whatever is necessary to get drugs.
Recently a husband and wife in Newark had plastic bags put over their heads and suffocated in front of their young children by other relatives attempting to find drugs.
Lives are wasted by incarcerating low-level drug dealers, but even more lives are wasted if the dealers aren't stopped.
