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To: .cnI redruM

Two extremely profitable industries that will resist change to the status quo are the current US tax system and the war on drugs.

Far too many laywers are making money off both to allow these cash cows to be taken from them.

Why do I single out lawyers?

Who make the laws in this country?


30 posted on 02/01/2005 10:42:05 AM PST by Dad2Angels
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To: Dad2Angels
Most of these substances were legal at some point and then got banned. Take for example Coca-Cola. There was originally a reason it was called Coke. It had cocaine.

Heroin and morphine were used heavily by both sides in The Civil War as sedatives for injured soldiers. It was then that the country first had to start dealing with heroin and morphine junkies and didn't like the social costs.

There is a lot of history behind these laws that gets swept under the rug because of the popular appeal of recreational drug use.
37 posted on 02/01/2005 10:48:43 AM PST by .cnI redruM (The Iraqis voted. The insurgency lost. Tell the DU it's over.)
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