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Subject:	Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:15:48 GMT
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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. > > 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. 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 were legalized, I suspect we'd have a lot of drug-related violence (refer to stats on alcohol-related deaths in this country) in *this* country. First let me see U.S. citizens use alcohol responsibly, then we can talk about coke.... > 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. Laugh. Talk about outrageous! The blame for third-world terror rests soley on the slimes who inflict the violence. Period. They sometimes happen to get their funding from slimes such as drug lords. Whether your coke costs $1,000 a line or $10, you still are lining their pockets. It is a twisted attempt to dehumanize those who > choose to self-medicate. > > When will the madness end? Legalize coke, and I'll show you where it will begin... -John

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		Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
(...) The problem isn't so much that it's illegal, but that we've accepted that it's the law's job to police morality. The danger of legalizing drugs isn't the legalization itself so much as the direction our society is already going with personal (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
(...) are (...) have (...) With which part of what I think is obviously the truth do you disagree? My statement breaks down into: A) The price of coke is inflated above the consumer-market value. B) People are motivated to be 'bad' when it is highly (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
(...) My gut feel is that for a while the violence would continue as those currently in positions of power because of the current system attempted to maintain those positions. Eventually they would be unable to maintain their positions. (...) My (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
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 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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