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Re: Medical Marijuana
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:41:05 GMT
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"David Eaton" <deaton@intdata.com> wrote in message news:Gn9n82.12G@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> > David:
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> > I think a lot of that shows a poor understanding of what is actually taking
> > place in our good country.
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> > The reasons to keep drugs (currently illicit drugs) ILLEGAL are:
>
> ? I admit I'm not up on the issues, but essentially the reasons you give are
> "under-the-covers" reasoning. And as such, are they encouragable? IE is
> having "slush money" and "overseeing drug trade" and "illegally dealing in
> drugs" something that you consider a "pro" of keeping drugs illegal?
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> If you're right, I'll admit that those may indeed be the reasons behind why
> it's currently kept illegal, but that they shouldn't be. And if you're
> wrong... ?
listen to the BBC radio program I mentioned in earlier post for discussions on US governments role in creating the drug
problem
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/audio/ram_thinkingallowed.ram
About 15 minutes in till the end (another 15 minutes)
For example, they suggest that the Republican party created small petty crimes of posession in order to make criminals
of large numbers of southern blacks so they would not be able to vote.
loz
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| (...) ? I admit I'm not up on the issues, but essentially the reasons you give are "under-the-covers" reasoning. And as such, are they encouragable? IE is having "slush money" and "overseeing drug trade" and "illegally dealing in drugs" something (...) (23 years ago, 23-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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