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To: SoldierDad
Drug legalization is NOT a conservative idea.

Of course it is - just like opposition to alcohol Prohibition was a conservative idea. Drug criminalization, like Prohibition before it, is "progressive" social engineering that has succeeded only in enriching criminals.

I state, emphatically, having been a conservative for the past 34 years, and after having read a great deal of books written by a great many conservative leaders, LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE VALUE.

What did those books say about the conservatism of opposing Prohibition? About utopian social engineering such as attempting to eradicate through government force the millenia-old pursuit of altered mental states? About the law of unintended consequences, as illustrated by drug criminalization's inflating drug profits and channeling them into criminal hands?

219 posted on 02/02/2012 12:55:02 PM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies

OMG, you are so obtuse.


222 posted on 02/02/2012 2:36:14 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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