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To: wideawake
I did a lot of pot 20-30 years ago during my teens and early 20s, but never touched anything harder. And, yes, I know a lot of people that can say the same. I haven't touched anything harder than scotch in more years than I can remember.

Like it or not, marijuana is a lot less destructive in virtually every way than alcohol. Yet no one is seriously considering prohibition again.

They do make a good point. Money and resources spent chasing kids with a few home-grown buds in their apartment could be much better spent on the serious problems facing America -- like the war on terror, for instance.

There is no need to keep persuing a phony and unwinnable drug war, that does nothing but turn hardworking, taxpaying Americans into criminals, when we have a genuine enemy that needs to be confronted.
27 posted on 12/02/2002 3:11:58 PM PST by Ronin
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To: Ronin
”Like it or not, marijuana is a lot less destructive in virtually every way than alcohol. Yet no one is seriously considering prohibition again.”

That’s because at some level they understand that prohibition didn’t work. Now weather or not they understand the fallout that was created by the prohibition laws is another matter.

The truth is that alcohol kills more people and creates more destruction per year than all drugs combined. And if any of the WOD’ers who usually pop off on these threads had any intellectual or moral honesty about themselves they would have researched the data and been aware of that fact and would likewise be calling for the prohibition of alcohol as well as drugs.

However, I suspect that most of the rabid WOD’ers here are probably staunch members of the Budweiser for lunch bunch.

39 posted on 12/02/2002 3:29:15 PM PST by Kerberos
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To: Ronin
I did a lot of pot 20-30 years ago during my teens and early 20s, but never touched anything harder. And, yes, I know a lot of people that can say the same. I haven't touched anything harder than scotch in more years than I can remember.

Maybe you can't remember very many years. George Soros, the quisling NWO apparatchik, spends big bucks pushing repeal of our drug laws. Why does a quisling billionaire like Soros want to have lots more American kids strung out on drugs? Is it because he loves this country? I don't think so.

40 posted on 12/02/2002 3:29:19 PM PST by Bedford Forrest
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