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Wayne.B

On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:16:42 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:46:07 -0500, Drifter
wrote:

You seem to be extremely interested in getting Mary Jane legalized.
Do you have an appetite for the stuff?

The real reason a lot of us want to see this legalized is because the
war on drugs has become one of the worst examples of a bloated
government program that simply wastes tons of money and returns
nothing to the tax payer.
The blow back has resulted in some of the worst constitutional
assaults
(profiling,.warrentless car searches, warrantless aerial surveillance
with IR imagery, warrantless wire taps, financial monitoring and the
list goes on)

Most of the abuses in the patriot act have been SOP for the DEA for
years.

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In addition to that, the "war on drugs" has become very much like
prohibition. The demand is there, the consumers are there, so a huge
illicit and illegal industry has sprung up to keep the market
supplied. Profits of this industry are artificially inflated
because of the illegality, and because of the huge profits, corruption
and crime run rampant everywhere the drug trade operates. Like
prohibition the supporting criminal supply network is far worse than
the original problem. Everyone wanted to make drugs illegal to
protect their children but the kids are getting drugs anyway along
with the societal problems of the drug industry which have become
pervasive.