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To: fwdude
There is nothing easier, enforcement wise, than banning a behavior or substance.

That's why nobody smokes pot, right? ROTFL!

It's also why nobody commits burglary, robbery, assault, rape, theft, etc.

It's difficult, enforcement wise, to ban a consensual 'crime.' Two-thirds of murders (for example) get solved; the fraction of drug 'crimes' that are even detected is assuredly orders of magnitude smaller. This is due in no small part to the fact that murder, unlike drug 'crimes', in and of itself has a victim - who will try to avoid and resist the crime and whose family and friends will assist in its investigation, whereas everyone involved in a drug 'crime' acts so as to make it succeed.

148 posted on 11/12/2015 7:46:38 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (a "guest worker" is a stateless person with no ties to any community, only to his paymaster)
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To: ConservingFreedom

So, you think all consensual actions should be legal, despite externalities affecting others?


150 posted on 11/12/2015 8:08:44 AM PST by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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