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To: BlueMondaySkipper

Spoken like a true libertarian. There is a lot of overlap between conservatives and libertarians. There are plenty of conservatives who believe we should just legalize drugs, completely ending the war on drugs and taking away all the incentive of gang violence for their control.

Of course this would never happen because the police, the prison guard unions, and the judges and lawyers all have job security with the millions of arrests and convictions from the mere possession and use of narcotics, let alone all the pushers and dealers who would not exist when you could go down to Walmart and buy everything from pot to acid.

The flip side is we would need to have a society that is willing to throw the book at anybody who kills or hurts someone due to irresponsible recreational drug use, by which I mean one strike and you are out. Make the punishment so harsh that only the most stupid Americans would take a chance using out and about.

Legalize, educate and then enforce very harshly against those who damage others while high.

But that would make too much sense.


74 posted on 08/19/2016 9:52:09 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
Spoken like a true libertarian.

I would be best described as a Constitutionalist.

Where in the Constitution is the government given the right to decide what to do with or put into your own body?

114 posted on 08/19/2016 1:19:17 PM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Just call libertarians what they really are: anarchists. They’re the most spineless people in the world, their answer to everything is to sit and do nothing. Let the crackheads run your town, nuthin’ wrong with that!


121 posted on 08/19/2016 4:08:56 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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