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• • 07 Aug 07
  • 4:45 pm

  Taxation would also be an important part of a legalization process. As can be seen from the above posting, in America we are seriously against "giving" anything to anyone for free because we want everything for ourselves, so in order to "give" medical treatment to addicts we would raise money by taxing those substances. Most currently illegal drugs would be much cheaper if they did not have to be smuggled in rectal cavaties, so taxation would not even raise the prices. The allure of illicit activity would be removed for kids that are rebelling so they would be forced to resort …

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• • 22 Aug 07
  • 5:03 pm

  trippin, You have proven the point with your last line: "Waiting on the world to change..." If everyone took action instead of waiting, maybe the world would change.

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• • 06 Sep 07
  • 6:16 pm

  Gglodoe, There are two groups of people you would have to defeat to pass the legislation that would help this country with the war on drugs problem. 1. Wealthy people who rely on the system to keep the poor down. 2. Wealthy drug dealers who rely on the system to keep drugs expensive. Considering both groups have immense amounts of money and the second group will use murder and bribery, you have an impossible battle.

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• • 01 Oct 07
  • 11:43 am

  gglodoe, I only meant directly, sure they could use their money to hire killers but you are not seriously arguing that the Daltons or the Connolys are personally committing murders.

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• • 07 Aug 07
  • 4:54 pm

  Has the decriminalization movement made any headway in forty years? Sometimes I think that I would rather see the neo-fascists succeed in destroying this country because there is nothing worth preserving. The "me" generation is giving way to the "I" generation and all Americans care about is their own wants. Crumbling infrastructure, insane criminal laws, regressive taxation, religious control of government, we might as well be a third world country.

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