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To: yonif; *Wod_list; jmc813
Flanagan added that she also believes the proposed legislation could be beneficial, adding, "They're still criminalizing the source of the problem: the people who are smuggling and distributing."

Another example of the decline of the educational system. How are smugglers and distributors "the source of the problem"---are they creating demand for marijuana?

The fact is, some people like to muddle their minds, and as Prohibition showed, there's not a damned thing government can do about it---although it can create new problems by trying.

3 posted on 06/09/2003 7:17:07 AM PDT by MrLeRoy (The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. - Jefferson)
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To: MrLeRoy
How are smugglers and distributors "the source of the problem"--

Yeah! Next someone will be telling us that they make it attractive and entice young children to try drugs. But Wait! Hasn't someone already told us that? Hmmmm.

4 posted on 06/09/2003 7:21:11 AM PDT by FreePaul
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You want to legalize poisons such as heroin, crack and methedrine. Not just "harmless marijuana".

So be honest and lay your cards on the table. And your ego trip of seeing weaker people succumb to these stupid drugs. Your Social Darwinism philosophy is a nutshell --->

 

Careful, just because someone has no problem with letting people poison themselves (and clean the crud out of the gene pool), does not mean we are drug users. We prefer to think of ourselves as unsympathetic to their problems. If you want to fry your brains, and kill yourself; it's more oxygen for me.

223 posted on 06/04/2003 5:27 PM EDT by Hodar (With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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7 posted on 06/09/2003 7:31:30 AM PDT by dennisw
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