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Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
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Date: 
Fri, 8 Feb 2002 02:31:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:

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.

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 I'd support carte blanche legalisation of
recreational drugs, but asserting that people who oppose it support terrorism
is way too big a stretch for me (though probably not for today's lawyers).

ROSCO



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  Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
 
(...) In truth, it was my somewhat outrageous opposite reaction to what I still think is an outrageous claim made by those commercials. Someone in the whitehouse ought to either: a) get their head out of their ass (donky, that is), or b) be ashamed (...) (23 years ago, 8-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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