If you support the War on Drugs, you're a freeper...

[Bush loves Jiang]

The libertarians and the radical left are the only ones making sense on thi issue.

[Terwilliger]

1. That would make them the Democratic party

cuz Dems can go on all day with gobbledy-gook but they won't change one damn law NOR will they prioritize it

[jsw_81]

2. Untrue

Lots of freepers are against the war on drugs. I should know, I posted over there for years (and got banned for years).

[Bush loves Jiang]

3. Meh...

I generally don't include the site's libertarian denizens when I collectively insult its members.

[einniv]

4. Not really.

There are plenty of Dem politicians and supporters who support the war on pot smokers. I personally don't understand it but it is the case.

I think that those that support locking up pot smokers but don't feel the same way about alcohol drinkers have probably never really thought about it much. Pot is less physically dangerous than alcohol. It is far less addictive. From a behavior standpoint clearly pot wins hands down. Where as alcohol causes some (many) people to become belligerent, obnoxious and sometiems mean!! Pot makes people giggle, munch and get creative. There really is no contest as to which is a more "dangerous" drug and which causes the worst behavioral side effects.

[Devlzown]

5. And a toady bootlicker!

eom

[loftycity]

6. Read "Drug Crazy" by Mike Gray

If you want historicallly correct information on this issue read this book.
It's all a sham and has been ....since Prohibition---politicians have to find a way to keep their jobs..

[Devlzown]

7. I'll check it out.

There are certainly a lot of similarities between the drug war and prohibition. I was having dinner with the family the other night and we were discussing an incident that happened in a rural community not far from where I live. The cops went to bust up a meth lab out there and a shootout commenced. Two or three people wound up getting killed. Eighty years ago that would've been a moonshine still. Same old story.

[girl gone mad]

8. Or a top Kerry advisor.

http://www.counterpunch.org/donahue01262004.html

[texastoast]

9. Or just putting on an appearance . . .

Lots of dirty politicians/cops out there taking money from the dealers. The whole Telluride sheriff's department got popped in the 1980s taking money from several international drug rings who were "hiding it up in Telluride." The dealers want it to stay illegal--keeps the price up.

As long as it stays illegal, there will be a black market and folks in organizations like the cartels blowing the shit out of people who encroach, whether it be a small-time dealer wanting some action or a liberal/libertarian politician wanting the government to get the cartel's take.

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