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You are a certifiable idiot.

Turn off the drug war and regions of South America will turn into anarchy. It is exactly things like School of the Americas, our DEA and DoD efforts in Columbia, financial aid packages to some of these governments that is keeping a resemblance of normalcy and some stability in some of these places.

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/09/20/Pasco/Pain_patient_hopes_fo.shtml

Here's another idiot - a man in terrible pain, arrested, put in jail, and deprived of his life. You ever need pain management my friend? You know how difficult it is to get pain medication, or to even get a pain management specialist to prescribe it? Know why that is? They're terrified that their licenses will be revoked by some scumbag DEA agent who is looking to make his quota. People don't seek treatment because of the stigma attached to illegal drugs. People are in pain and suffering because of the war on drugs, just another facet of its injustice.

If ever I hated being conservative, it is the rife hypocrisy that goes unnoticed. South America will turn into anarchy? So what? And what does that say of your opinion of the people down there? We can handle freedom up here, but down there, they need a little nudge eh? Nice. I thought we were about limited government. Are we, as conservatives, serious about that or not?

You are a certifiable idiot.

Turn off the drug war and regions of South America will turn into anarchy. It is exactly things like School of the Americas, our DEA and DoD efforts in Columbia, financial aid packages to some of these governments that is keeping a resemblance of normalcy and some stability in some of these places.

Rather than debasing yourself by resorting to ad hominem attacks on your opponent (which make you look childish and unprepared to actually argue your points), perhaps you can enlighten us by expounding on your theory.

Exactly which regions of South America "will turn into anarchy" if the United States "turn[s] off the drug war"? How much does it cost the US taxpayer annually to prevent anarchy in these specific regions? And why do you suppose that it is the responsibility of the US taxpayer to prevent anarchy in South America?

Should we suppose that you are not so much anti-drug as anti-anarchism? Do you support anti-anarchist spending across the rest of the world? Zimbabwe is currently anarchic, as is Somalia to name only two countries. Should the US military be involved in both of these countries too? What about anarchic regions within countries?

Can you think of any reason why the United States government should not try to police the entire world to prevent anarchy?

Also, you meant "semblance" not "resemblance."

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Do you have anything to say to the Americans in pain who cannot get sufficient medicine because of the WOD? Do you have anything to say to the victims of cancer who must make arduous trips to their pain managment specialist because they cannot get a script for more than 30 days? Do you have anything to say to the individuals who are helped by Hospice who are persecuted and relentlessly dogged because they use pain meds to ease the suffering of the terminally ill? Do you have anything to say to the cop who takes a fatal bullet over arresting a guy for smoking a joint? Do you have anything to say to the student who cannot go to college or get financial aid because he was caught with marijuana as a teen?

Do you have anything to offer other than the status quo? My guess is the answer to every question is a resounding "No."