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To: CWOJackson
But... I want Al Capone out of my neighborhoods. Oh yeah, he is. It is sold at liquor stores which can be zoned. Funny that Al Capone's heirs still are not out selling with gin dens in every neighborhood.

I want my headache to end. Just because I don't hit myself with a hammer doesn't change that fact. If I believed that the WOD worked I would not be here arguing. I believe prohibition didn't work. I believe this doesn't work. I don't enjoy drunks being obnoxious at 2am, but the alternative was worse. We need a bit more good faith here. Not all WOD people are jackboots, and not all people opposed to it are stoners.

We really have two choices. We have either a saudi arabia or singapore, or we legalize. Both systems work, but both have drawbacks. The middle ground is completely ineffective. Until you can convince every 15 year old in the inner city, that flipping burgers for $5.50 is a better option than facing even a 50/50 chance of either hitting the lottery or going to jail, ya can't win the war on drugs. You can make more selling WOD inflated price drugs in a week-end, then you can flipping burgers for 6 months. Your first time penalty will be perhaps a couple years with 3 squares a day, a bed, and a weight room if you get caught. For many, those odds are quite fair.

75 posted on 07/06/2003 7:12:15 PM PDT by dogbyte12
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To: dogbyte12
"You can make more selling WOD inflated price drugs in a week-end, then you can flipping burgers for 6 months."

That's a personal choice. The same can be said about selling the answers to college exams, to pimping, to stealing air bags, to an endless variety of things that all boil down to personal choice. If you want to make easy money, illegally, you'll find the game in town that pays; whether it's drugs, running numbers...whatever.

Progessively making those things legal only progressively makes those things legal. As far as the so-called odds being fair...that all boils down to personal choices.

82 posted on 07/06/2003 7:58:25 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: dogbyte12
We really have two choices. We have either a saudi arabia or singapore, or we legalize. Both systems work, but both have drawbacks. The middle ground is completely ineffective.

Read your post and understand why libertarians will always be < 1%.

93 posted on 07/06/2003 10:03:53 PM PDT by cinFLA
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