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To: orionblamblam
"Yes. It's the 21st amendment. Passed when they realized what an unutterable disaster the War On Booze was."

And I support an amendment, similar in wording to Section 2 of the 21st amendment, removing the power to regulate drugs from the federal government and turning that decision over to the states exclusively.

I wouldn't vote for it, of course*, but I would support that method of legalization. They did it for alcohol, they can do it for other drugs.

Keep in mind, Section 1 of the 21st amendment simply repealed the 18th. That brought everything back to where it was before Prohibition.

Section 2 was added to remove the power to regulate alcohol from the federal government, a power they always had, and turn it over to the states and the states alone.

*Alcohol, today, is legal in every state. What if alcohol was legal in only half the states? Is that what we want for drugs?

191 posted on 09/05/2006 1:49:27 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

> turn it over to the states and the states alone.

I would seriously not mind if drugs were legalized the way Utah legalized hard likker. Aroudn here there are some *seriously* drab and bureaucratic looking squat buildings that serve as the Utah Liquor Stores, the only place where you can legally purchase whiskey and such. Do the same for dope.


195 posted on 09/05/2006 1:56:38 PM PDT by orionblamblam (I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
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