[JediGirl]

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[JediGirl]

Sorry, I forgot to put the author: Steve Brown

[freeforall]

More proof that the drug war is more dangerous than drugs.

[Willie Green]

"Fried eggs" is an apt description of drug users' brains.
Gotta admit, however, rotten eggs don't fry up too well.
But it's a good analogy nevertheless.

[Saundra Duffy]

One track mind.

[Dane]

the D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project has responded to the targeting of America - and Americans - with its own exhibit that tells a different story of terrorism and the war on drugs.

And this group probably gets it's bucks from socialist and Hillary friend, George Soros.

Yeah, yeah, Bill Buckley wrote a couple of articles, but it is the socialists like Soros who is really pushing drugs(giving mega bucks to pro-drug groups) on America.

[Illbay]

Funny. Some article from a "weekly" (probably distributed "free" in head shops all around Santa Fe, NM) is put up as authoritative.

You druggies are so transparent, but...

"When you're on pot, you aren't really brilliant. You just THINK you're brilliant."

P.S. Your family is scheduled to do an "intervention" with you this week.

[Inge_CAV]

"Fried Eggs"

And I thought this thread was about breasts.....

[Who dat?]

The MPP site is dedicated to 18-year-old Esequiel Hernandez, shot ( in the back ) and killed by U.S. Marines ( The Marines were operating illegally according to U.S. law that does not allow - yet - for our armed forces to patrol in this manner inside our borders, though the Desert Post WEEKLY has received accounts of at least one other recent USMC internal policing operation in California, unverified by authorities ) while tending goats outside his Texas home.

That’s not exactly how I remember it. I recall that Hernandez was first observed on the Mexico side moving toward Texas and was seen to be armed at that time. I remember that the Marines were specifically looking for (possibly) armed people scouting that area for Border Patrol officers so the smugglers wouldn't get caught.

I seem to remember that Hernandez was reported to have fired at least one round at them and the Marine returned fire. I remember that the Presidio County grand jury declined to indict anyone after the facts were presented to them.

I also seem to remember that JTF-6 could, in fact, run interdiction operations on the border. At least as of ’92-ish or so… so they were not “operating illegally” despite claims made to the contrary.

Hopefully the rest of the article is more accurate than their accounting of this incident.

[Wurlitzer]

First: I have never used an illegal drug in my life.

Second: I have no use for anyone who does illegal drugs

Third: If someone causes an accident while under the influence they should be punished to the fullest extent the law allows.

Fourth: Outside of the third statement, it is none of my business what someone else does to his or her brain. There is no law against stupidity.

Now if this is truly a war on drugs, how long is it to be waged? What is the exit strategy? Who defines that the war is won? What Constitutional protections are to be ignored in this war? Does the war on drugs simply increase the cost of illegal drugs thereby increasing the criminal element? Would there be as many drug related crimes if the profit were eliminated? How much will a $200/day habit cost if the criminal element is removed.

Again, I have nothing but distain for a drug user but I am unwilling to sacrifice Constitutional protections to attempt (and fail) to save an idiot from them self. They are all potential Darwin Award contestants.

[be-baw]

JediGirl, I admire your persistence in finding and posting articles that point out how ludicrous is the War on Drugs. I am amazed how so many 'conservatives' here blithely ignore how the federal government is getting involved in matters that are best left to the individual states. Indeed, the U.S. government is usurping the Constitution by doing so (nothing new there, eh?).

I don't know if you saw this, but it's an excellent synopsis of the effects of cannabis, and debunks many of the myths being foisted upon the American people by Walters, Hutchinson, et al.

The Benefits of Marijuana