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To: JustSayNoToNannies
Rubbish. Last time cannabis - a known and accepted ingredient in many legal products - was rechristened as "marihuana" by out-of-work ex-Prohibitionists and criminalized with scare stories about crazy Mexicans and white-woman-seducing Negro jazz musicians. (And robbery to pay for drugs is fueled by anti-drug laws keeping prices high.)

Which is it?

105 posted on 10/22/2012 11:23:37 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
People will get tired of the potheads disturbing their lives and robbing them, just like last time.

Rubbish. Last time cannabis - a known and accepted ingredient in many legal products - was rechristened as "marihuana" by out-of-work ex-Prohibitionists and criminalized with scare stories about crazy Mexicans and white-woman-seducing Negro jazz musicians. (And robbery to pay for drugs is fueled by anti-drug laws keeping prices high.)

Which is it?

Both are true - since drug robbery is much lower when drugs are legal, it's not a motivating factor in making drugs illegal.

107 posted on 10/23/2012 7:11:23 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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