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To: Ken H
Tokin’ Resistance
By Howard Stansfield
DATED: 12/12/96

Soros, who declined to comment for this story, writes that “the drug problem as primarily a criminal problem is a misconception” and that “eradicating the drug problem is a false idea.”

“A drug-free America is simply not possible. You can discourage the use of drugs, you can forbid the use of drugs, you can treat people who are addicted to drugs, but you cannot eradicate drugs.”

So what would he do?

“I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available,” he writes. “Initially, I would keep the prices low enough to destroy the drug trade. Once that objective was obtained, I would keep raising the prices, very much like an excise duty on cigarettes, but I would make an exception for registered addicts in order to discourage crime.”

source: www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/1996-12-12

30 posted on 07/02/2018 9:48:12 PM PDT by donna (Question for protesters: If families are so important, why are you living in sin?)
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To: donna

Well that idea will get votes from the addicts, but in real life what is being done is to imprison the affected involuntarily because it saves 30 grand a year.


34 posted on 07/02/2018 9:59:03 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: donna

Since you avoided my question, I can only infer that you do think President Trump is a dupe of Soros. You certainly didn’t deny it.

Sad.


36 posted on 07/02/2018 10:03:34 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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