[Robert_Paulson2]

Gee, sounds like alcohol. Let's reinstate prohibition.

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don't laugh and don't look.
they are working on it via state legislation and highway funds... incrementally.

the prohibitionists in government I have known all believe that the new superdatabase of the patriot act, biometric driver's licenses, facial recognition and automated electronic medical records interface, as it is used more and more by law enforcement, will eventually be able to effectively prohibit all forms of vice like: cigarettes, booze, and many many others...

And they intend to make significant progress within the next five years. and they intend to do so... incrementally.

so much for Reagan's smaller government malarky.

[bluetone006]

My father was a heavy dope smoker until I was 15. He and his friends pretty much fit the description in the article. I'm not in favor of legalizing it because it would be as problematic as alcohol if it was as widely used and alcohol is by far the most destructive drug in the US in terms of overall impact.

I think the whole pain relief argument is an obvious smokescreen (bad pun).

I don't like the federal power grab but hey there isn't much republic left in our republic anyway.

[bluetone006]

don't laugh and don't look. they are working on it via state legislation and highway funds... incrementally. the prohibitionists in government I have known all believe that the new superdatabase of the patriot act, biometric driver's licenses, facial recognition and automated electronic medical records interface, as it is used more and more by law enforcement, will eventually be able to effectively prohibit all forms of vice like: cigarettes, booze, and many many others... And they intend to make significant progress within the next five years. and they intend to do so... incrementally. Dude - a little too much weed me thinks. There is no grand conspiracy in the federal government. I spent many years working in the very middle of it - it is just a vast collection of folks from every political persuasion.