Horse s**t. The drug laws killed this guy. Just as Chicago gangs no longer fight tommy-gun wars over illegal alcohol sales, nobody would have been trying to rip him off if the stuff were decriminalized and fifty times cheaper.
The DEA has admitted that nobody has EVER, in all of recorded history, died of an overdose of marijuana.
Drug laws kill. They kill WAY WAY WAY more people than drugs.
If you support the drug war, you're no conservative. You are a damn fool, a fascist, or you're filling your rice bowl by destroying the lives of harmless pot smokers. And I say you are destroying the American way of life. Every one of our ancient Saxon freedoms is under attack because of this puritanical idiocy.
Decriminalization is inevitable. As soon as the Greatest Generation and the older baby boomers die off, it will be an accomplished fact, and vast armies of cops and prison guards will have to find new careers.
-ccm
Thank you. Excellent rant. You hit many fine points in quick succession. Concise and irrefutable. Wish there were more of you around here. Please post more often!