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Subject:	If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Mon, 4 Feb 2002 14:17:05 GMT
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The White House Office of Drug Control Policy has started an ad campaign in which they are attempting a clever diversion through the logical equivalent of smoke and mirrors. Their assertion is that by consuming product (cocaine) from places like Colombia, you are promoting terrorism by providing the economy needed by violent drug lords to commit all manner of atrocities. The truth is that, there is enough money in cocaine production that people are willing to be bad, only because the great and wealthy nations of the world have artificially inflated the price of the product through trade barriers. If cocaine bacame legal in the US, violence in Colombia would settle. The 30-year (or whatever) revolution funded by the drug lords would run out of steam with no new monetary influx. These advertisements constitute an outrageous attempt to place the blame for third-world terror (which rests clearly on the laps of anti-drug folks (in this case)) on the drug consumers. It is a twisted attempt to dehumanize those who choose to self-medicate. When will the madness end? Chris

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		Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
It's easy to put the terrorists and drug lords out of business: just legalize the stuff (and in case that sounds too Libertarian, tax it and use the money for drug education and rehabilitation! <g>). Personally, I think Bush could have inserted (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
(...) One might suppose the violence would settle, but we have no way of knowing that, much less calling that hypothetical "truth". How many Americans would you suppose could use a highly addictive drug such as cocaine "responsibly"? If cocaine (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
(...) I'd say the truth is that legalization isn't associable. It might be more correct to say that if you support illegal drug use, you support terrorism, albeit inderectly. Whether or not its legalization would change the terrorist state isn't (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
(...) have (...) 30-year (...) Anyway, back to the original topic, this is like saying the carpenter that built the bar supports the attack & rape of women by intoxicated men (and all other gender combinations). I'm still considering whether or not (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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