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To: Vaduz

Look, my point is that the sale of marijuana is the bread and butter of the drug trade. Cartels use the annual multi billion dollar marijuana market to fund its other activities.
I’m not saying all problems in the world will disappear by repealing prohibition.
Prohibition very predictably creates two things; 1. a government market and 2. a black market.
The problems that face our nation cannot and should not be solved by militarizing local police and continuing to spend billions pissing into the wind.
Believe it or not the US existed and did fine before prohibition.
The government learned from its experience with trying to prohibit alcohol what a wealth of opportunity there was to expand its own power by banning and regulating substances and inanimate objects.
It’s not like the founding fathers dropped the ball by not banning and regulating these things right away.
They didn’t see the role of the government to solve every problem or ill in society.
And it’s not “stoner logic” to question the wisdom of a seemingly never ending “war” that (as far as I can tell) has only resulted in a massively oversized government and an infrastructure that can quickly be used to impose grave tyranny.
I’m open to other options. And just FYI I’m married to a woman, have my own law business, and we have three children together.
Neither one of us use drugs or hang out with druggies.
I am also a former prosecutor and I can tell you that most people in the “justice system” will admit behind closed doors that the “war” is a sick joke and exists solely because of the livelihoods that depend on its continuation.


15 posted on 01/01/2013 7:01:16 AM PST by Clump ( the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
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To: Clump

What you said.

I’ll add that, unfortunately, even if the prohibition is lifted, many of the societal malfunctions developed in its name will live on. Three that come to mind are excessive police militarization, the TV glorification and frequent use of no-knock searches, and civil forfeiture, where the government grabs assets under the presumption they were involved in a crime and forces the “grab-ee” to sue in order to get them returned. Cash in your car? It must have been used in the drug trade. It’s ours now, sue us.


16 posted on 01/01/2013 7:09:23 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Clump

Druggies are the problem so why help them to get drugs of any kind?.
Being passive cures nothing.


23 posted on 01/02/2013 3:10:09 AM PST by Vaduz
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