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    Nov 6, 2006, 01:27 PM
    Check. Thanks for setting me straight.
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    Nov 6, 2006, 03:50 PM
    As I understand your dislike for illegal drugs, I'm sure you know why people take drugs and the dollars that go into the enforcement of those laws and the inequity of that enforcement, as well as after all that money, laws, and enforcement, the drugs come here in record numbers and makes billions of dollars. This makes no sense to me and it would seem a whole lot of sense to change a system that doesn't work at all, so I bet you have a common sense solution besides building more prisons don't you?
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    Nov 9, 2006, 08:48 AM
    Perhaps we could start by burning those poppy fields in Afganistan? We could train and rehabilitate ex-drug users to search and destroy and give them a purpose, a goal and a paycheck.
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    #64

    Nov 9, 2006, 09:00 AM
    Just to add a little monkey wrench of fact into the mix here: in the United States, alcoholism racks up ten times bigger numbers in most of the measurable areas of damage (health, crime, accidents, etc.) when compared to all illegal drugs combined but because the drug problem is so much more feared than alcoholism, the "war on drugs" annually receives a disproportionate and considerably larger amount of money. Perception is more valid in politics than science, I am afraid.
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    #65

    Nov 9, 2006, 11:31 AM
    Forget legalisation, How about decriminalisation?
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    Nov 11, 2006, 02:20 PM
    The problem with decriminalization is that anything that is illegal to possess is, as a practical matter, legal to steal. It's bad policy to have anything of value that can be stolen with impunity. The Alaska approach makes sense (for pot, at least): Legal to grow and possess, illegal to transport or sell.
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    Nov 14, 2006, 07:11 AM
    Hello again:

    For what it's worth, I thought I'd let you folks know that I'm a medical marijuana patient with a valid prescription.

    I smoke a lot of very potent pot. However, if it makes you feel any better, I promise not to enjoy it.

    excon
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    #68

    Nov 14, 2006, 07:13 AM
    Pass some this way ;)
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    Nov 18, 2006, 05:41 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by excon
    Hello again:

    For what it's worth, I thought I'd let you folks know that I'm a medical marijuana patient with a valid prescription.

    I smoke a lot of very potent pot. However, if it makes you feel any better, I promise not to enjoy it.

    excon
    That does seem to be the issue for a lot of people. Just recently there was something in the news about pot being protective against lung cancer and Alzheimers. The researchers were all concerned about whether they could isolate the "beneficial" compounds and separate them from the ones that cause "euphoria". I guess it's just completely unacceptable to have people feeling good about taking their medicine. Personally, I don't see what the problem is.

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