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Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 4 Feb 2002 15:35:56 GMT
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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 himself (or his daddy) in there and the commercial
would have been more accurate.
Harrumph! :-)
Bruce
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> When will the madness end?
>
> Chris
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