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To: Cultural Jihad
Since our whole form of self-governance is based on rationality, the ability to offer consent, and clear-headedness, why would anyone advocate the "right" to abrogate self-governance unless they were haters of liberty or were just sorely ill-informed?

Are you then prepared to ban alcohol, legal narcotics and psychedelic plants, mind-imprisoning cults and all other contributors to irrationality?
352 posted on 12/30/2001 9:32:46 PM PST by Hemlock
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To: Hemlock
Are you then prepared to ban alcohol, legal narcotics and psychedelic plants, mind-imprisoning cults and all other contributors to irrationality?

Don't forget, we'll need to ban stress, poor diet, lack of proper sleep and exercise, arguments with a spouse, etc. as these all can contribute to a lack of clear-headness. They needn't cause problems for everyone to be banned. A drug needs only to make one act irresponsibly in order for it to be forbidden to all. Ooops, almost forgot, Dan, Tom, Peter, CNN, and most Sunday morning talk shows make me so livid they'll require prohibition as well.

362 posted on 12/30/2001 9:46:25 PM PST by laredo44
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To: Hemlock
Depends on whether they are covered by this or not Hemlock:

The Congress makes the following findings and declarations:
(1) Many of the drugs included within this title have a useful and legitimate medical purpose and are necessary to maintain the health and general welfare of the American people.
(2) The illegal importation, manufacture, distribution, and possession and improper use of controlled substances have a substantial and detrimental effect on the health and general welfare of the American people.
(3) A major portion of the traffic in controlled substances flows through interstate and foreign commerce. Incidents of the traffic which are not an integral part of the interstate or foreign flow, such as manufacture, local distribution, and possession, nonetheless have a substantial and direct effect upon interstate commerce because--
(A) after manufacture, many controlled substances are transported in interstate commerce,
(B) controlled substances distributed locally usually have been transported in interstate commerce immediately before their distribution, and
(C) controlled substances possessed commonly flow through interstate commerce immediately prior to such possession.
(4) Local distribution and possession of controlled substances contribute to swelling the interstate traffic in such substances.
(5) Controlled substances manufactured and distributed intrastate cannot be differentiated from controlled substances manufactured and distributed interstate. Thus, it is not feasible to distinguish, in terms of controls, between controlled substances manufactured and distributed interstate and controlled substances manufactured and distributed intrastate.
(6) Federal control of the intrastate incidents of the traffic in controlled substances is essential to the effective control of the interstate incidents of such traffic.
(7) The United States is a party to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and other international conventions designed to establish effective control over international and domestic traffic in controlled substances.

364 posted on 12/30/2001 9:49:31 PM PST by A CA Guy
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