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Altered Minds (Former drug warriors turn against prohibition.)
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| August 29, 2003
| Jacob Sullum
Posted on 09/02/2003 1:31:59 PM PDT by Korth
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To: jmc813
...including decriminalization of marijuana, a drug he considers much less dangerous than the government claims. I can't believe anyone would consider this guy's opinion more significant than an *admission* of the truth by Ozzy Osbourne himself!
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posted on
09/02/2003 5:36:21 PM PDT
by
Yeti
To: MrLeRoy
bluenoses Ever read a short story called "Marching Morons" ?
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posted on
09/02/2003 5:39:53 PM PDT
by
Yeti
To: Yeti
"Moogs, would you buy it for a quarter?"
LOL!...C.M.Kornbluth - one of the greats!
To: Korth
"After three decades of fueling the US war on drugs with over half a trillion tax dollars and increasingly punitive policies," says LEAP, "illicit drugs are easier to get, cheaper, and more potent than they were 30 years ago. While our court system is choked with ever-increasing drug prosecutions, our quadrupled prison population has made building prisons this nation's fastest growing industry...Meanwhile people are dying in our streets and drug barons grow richer than ever before. We must change these policies." I wonder what a half a trillion dollars could buy besides a failed drug war? If that were put in an interest bearing account wouldn't the interest about pay our national deficits?
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posted on
09/02/2003 5:59:57 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Regime change in the Courts. - Impeach Activist Judges!)
To: JG52blackman
I totally agree with you. It just makes sense.
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posted on
09/02/2003 9:11:46 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Our Liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain!)
To: zerosix
"Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the natural rights of others." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791.
The rights of one individual end where an other's rights begin.
There must be an other to steal from, murder or rape.
It is an inalienable right for an individual to plant a seed, grow and consume a gift of God.
You have the guile to advocate legalizing violent criminal acts which violate the rights of others in support of your own rights violating opinion in favor of the WOsD.
zerosix wrote: "And as to murder, or even rape, for that matter, why the desire to kill someone who has wronged you or rape a woman/child because she/he says no, is hardly acceptable in today's society, is it?"
But, you support the WOD which does the same to those that will not 'Just Say No." How is this acceptable? A country at war with its citizenry is not a 'society' by any definition of the word nor can it possess peace, particularly not for export. A "stable society" is not one in which citizens are warred upon by an evil spirit of unconstitutional nature bent on controlling the minds of the populace through false propaganda and deadly force directed by a Czar. Neither is it a stable society when an individual is imprisoned for possession of a flower from the garden of God because it may alter the thoughts in that individual in a manner deemed inappropriate by corporate pawns seeking to maintain the efficiency of their chattel.
"...declaring war against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from the face of the earth, is the concern of every man to whom nature hath given the power of feeling" Thomas Paine from 'Common Sense'
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posted on
09/02/2003 9:21:45 PM PDT
by
PaxMacian
(Gen 1:29)
To: Korth
If Tennant is so worried about drugs, maybe he should focus his attention on the Afghani heroin trade. They just brought in a record crop under U.S. occupation.
As always, the government is non-serious on the issue.
To: Yeti
...including decriminalization of marijuana, a drug he considers much less dangerous than the government claims.
This is the problem Marijiana isn't that dangerous and most americans know it.All of us know someone who has been killed by alchohol or tobacco but I have never seen or heard of anyone killed by smoking pot.Show me the bodies? The pro legalization people and the War on drugs people have this ridiculas all or nothing attitude that just doesn't make sense.Everyone admits that drugs like heroin and methamphetimine are dangerous and should be illeagal But why not legalize the softcore stuff thats less dangerous than stuff you can leagally buy in a convieniance store?The stoners would be happy and the "drug warriors" could still chase the Cocain and heroin cartels.And we'd SAVE MONEY.duh!
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posted on
09/02/2003 11:50:05 PM PDT
by
edchambers
(Peace sells but who's buying?)
To: edchambers
Everyone admits that drugs like heroin and methamphetimine are dangerousYup.
and should be illeagal
Nope. Self-imposed dangers are none of the government's business.
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posted on
09/04/2003 7:13:15 AM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
(The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. - Jefferson)
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