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The booze barriers
Washington Times ^
| Tuesday, January 1, 2002
| Jacob Sullum
Posted on 01/01/2002 3:06:42 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:50:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: steve50
We may agree on more than you think.No doubt about it. Your irony was not lost on me.
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posted on
01/04/2002 9:30:00 AM PST
by
AKbear
To: stainlessbanner
I tried to get my hands on some Gold label Jack for 10 years. they wasted it all on those fools in DC.
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posted on
01/04/2002 9:30:11 AM PST
by
steve50
To: Hemingway's Ghost
With your Senator Ted, I thought you might be more receptive to this.
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posted on
01/04/2002 10:15:58 AM PST
by
steve50
To: Architect
The Constitution is a Living Document. It must evolve and adapt to meet the needs of the 21st Century. We live in a far more complex society today and people today need to be protected for the common good. If you knew about the Constitution, you would already know that the issue of Prohibition has been addressed once and for all with the repeal of the Eighteeth Amendment in 1933. Good luck trying to get it reinstated.
To: SamAdams76;Architect;steve50
If you knew about the Constitution, you would already know that the issue of Prohibition has been addressed once and for all with the repeal of the Eighteeth Amendment in 1933. Good luck trying to get it reinstated. I think Architect's comments (and steve50's) were dripping with sarcasm.
Truth is, considering the illegality of the WOD, why do you think they'd even bother with a constitutional amendment if they ever decided to re-impose Prohibition?
To: bassmaner
** bump for a darn good question **
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posted on
01/04/2002 12:48:38 PM PST
by
Eddeche
To: steve50
They didn't SMOKE the hemp; but they DRANK the ethanol.
(And, as you likely know, the General, [George Washington] grew hemp AND ran a distillery).
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To: GalFromTheBay
You may be right. ;-D
To: SamAdams76
Our legistators and courts have ruled that the Pure Food and Drug act are all the authority they need for prohibition. It doesn't take a Constitutional Amendment to reclassify alcohol and tobacco.
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posted on
01/05/2002 3:44:02 AM PST
by
steve50
To: steve50
Your compelling arguments have won me over let's ban the insidious destroyers of youth, alcohol and tobacco! It'll take a lot more prisons, a few hundred thousand more DEA agents and a big fat tax increase to fund it all (from law enforcement to the courts to treatment centers). But, after all, it's all worthwhile if we save ONE person from him or herself.
However, you fail to see the third substance that should join alcohol and tobacco in the Schedule 1 category. I speak of caffeine, the drug that has enslaved millions of Americans who can't get through a single day without a fix. These poor souls, like those in the grip of tobacco, cry out to be helped through mandatory treatment programs. It may seem harsh, but cleaning these people up whether they like it or not is the only way to put a stop to this addictive drug's destructive effects on health, family and society.
Keep up the good work. Perhaps with threads like this, more people at Free Republic will get the message about Prohibition.
To: Polonius
Now you have gone too far, polonius. Your personal freedoms end exactly the same place my personal vices do. With out coffee, the industrialized world would cease to exist.
You Sir, are no friend of freedom.
Thx to all who played this game, especially those of you who "got it".
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posted on
01/05/2002 4:45:49 AM PST
by
steve50
To: steve50
It took me awhile to "get it," Steve. And at first I was p*ssed off. But then I decided there was some good discussion in here.
I think we should prohibit sugar, also. Dentists have been saying it for years.
Let's see, now our list of no-no's can be:
1)Alcohol;
2)Cigarettes;
3)Caffeine;
4)And, of course, my choice, Sugar.
Anybody else what to prohibit the use of anything?
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posted on
01/05/2002 5:49:53 AM PST
by
Slip18
To: Hemingway's Ghost;XBob
If I have to spell it out for you, they AIN'T serious. They are seriously mocking the DANEs of FR, and it's working!
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posted on
01/06/2002 5:36:40 PM PST
by
dcwusmc
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