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To: SampleMan
"So we are in agreement that the People of the states should be left to decide the matter of harm for themselves?"

If the states decided the drug issue, why do you think that would work? Or don't you care if it works or not, as long as that's the way it's done?

I bring this up because, prior to Prohibition, the states alone made the decision whether to be "wet" or "dry" and they split 50-50. Problems arose when the "wet" states illegally smuggled to "dry" states next door.

The "dry" states pressured Congress for assistance and got the Webb-Kenyon Act making this smuggling illegal at the federal level, but that didn't help. Eventually, we got Prohibition.

But you're saying this wouldn't happen with easy-to-smuggle drugs? Or, again, are you saying you just don't care?

496 posted on 11/05/2006 6:13:52 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

I'm not saying it wouldn't happen. I'm sure it would.

I'm also not saying that I don't care.

I'm saying that in many instances it is not a federal issue.


530 posted on 11/06/2006 11:32:59 AM PST by SampleMan (Do not dispute the peacefulness of Islam, so as not to send Muslims into violent outrage.)
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