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To: berdie
I watched the last part of the KERA debate and I think I heard Medina say she was for legalizing drugs. I'll have to do a little more research on that stance, especially since we are inundated with drug crime from south of the border, It disturbed me, even though the rest of her debate performance (that I saw) was pretty good.

Not real bright are you? The reason you are inundated with drug crime from south of the border is because drugs are illegal. Burn that in your brain. You don't see alcohol being run across the border by gangs do you? That's because it is legal, if prohibition was put back in place then you would see alcohol join the other illegal drugs coming across the border with the obligatory crime to go with it.

Making something illegal is what causes the crime because it generates MONEY for the people willing to take the risk of dealing in it. Legalize it, take the money out of it, and you will end the crime, or at least greatly reduce it.

People who think legalizing drugs would lead to moral decay are wrong. Until the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, drugs were LEGAL in this country. We had a lower crime rate, no gangs coming into the states and drug addiction was no worse than it is now population wise.

Yes, we have some alcoholics in this country, but we had then during prohibition also, legalizing alcohol did not cause the country to become a moral cess pool and neither will legalizing drugs.

The WOD is kept alive by the government because it makes them money and allows them to enact draconian laws such as the forfeiture laws.

43 posted on 01/22/2010 5:37:42 AM PST by calex59
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To: calex59
I appreciate your impassioned response, Calex.

I don't know if alcohol and drugs actually equate with one another. Large quantities of alcohol are difficult to produce and transport, hence the profit margin would be relatively small. I'm not sure having a taxed and regulated “Bob's Meth Lab” on every corner would stop illegal traffic.

In any event, you know what they say about opinions...

55 posted on 01/22/2010 1:19:38 PM PST by berdie (Hey, Bill Mahr...That's Mrs. Cracker to you.)
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