Word: surely
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...result. I can state for certain that drug use would increase. I don't use drugs now. If they were legal, I would use them. Or rather, if marijuana were legal, I would use it occasionally instead of the legal drug I now use regularly, alcohol. To be sure, increased respect for the law is not the only reason so many middle-class, middle-age people have abandoned marijuana: you're also no longer so carefree about where your mind might take you on automatic pilot, especially in public. But society's official disapproval is a substantial deterrent. Without...
...which is neither possible nor desirable. Thinking about the drug problem in this way focuses special attention on the role of marijuana. Current policy steers people like you and me, fellow bourgeois TIME readers, away from marijuana and toward alcohol. Is that a good idea? I'm not sure. Legalizing marijuana might steer the users of crack, heroin, PCP, etc., toward grass instead. Whether that's a good idea seems much clearer...
...their 70s and 80s -- chatted excitedly with three local politicians who stopped by for a little backslapping. "Everyone knows what he is supposed to do," Fabian told his attentive troops as he introduced them to an aspiring tax accessory. "We have to fight hard for this man and make sure no one loses his home because of high taxes...
...March, the Jackson camp harbors no one who believes the fantasy that he can win the nomination. But Jackson keeps running in hopes that a strong finish in the June 7 California and New Jersey primaries will help him exact concessions from Dukakis. The problem is that the usually sure-footed Jackson seems confused about the best way to maximize his influence. In recent weeks this candidate who will not concede has vacillated between his long-cherished role as the ultimate maverick and his fledging status as a highly valued party insider...
...Nevada's Reese River Valley, they were dismayed to find 20 cows missing from a herd of 200. When none turned up on neighbors' lands or in Nevada stockyards, the O'Tooles knew that 10% of their herd had been rustled. Says Lilly O'Toole, 43: "I'm sure they're slaughtered and made into hamburger...