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To: Tublecane

You still make no sense.. Drugs can be regulated? Ok. Well, lets keep it how it is with alcohol and tobacco legal and the rest not. Ok? Seems like a reasonable compromise to me.


256 posted on 01/08/2013 4:45:00 PM PST by Monty22002
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To: Monty22002

Still a bunch of questions you’ve ignored left to answer. Any reason you keep ignoring them? Or should I just expect another rant on my supposed drug use?


258 posted on 01/08/2013 4:49:07 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Monty22002

There’s only one typo in that post, so you can’t fall back on that excuse. Did you even read it? Because I brought up both federalism concerns and the distinction between vices and crimes. Regulating the drug industry like we do food or anything else on the state level would be appropriate. Criminalizng drug possession or use is not, because like I said vices are not crimes.

Then there’s federalism. One big reason we cannot “keep it how it is” is the federal government lacks the power to carry on the Drug War. That power lies with the states, if it exists at all. The feds stole it, as they like to do. At least earlier prohibition was honest, in that it amended the Constitution to pursue its stupidity.


271 posted on 01/08/2013 5:09:47 PM PST by Tublecane
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