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Thread #70562 Message #1205333
Posted By: Clinton Hammond
11-Jun-04 - 03:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Legalize Pot?
Subject: RE: BS: Legalize Pot?
if 100% efficiency was even half the issue...
The war on drugs has done NOTHING but cost tax-payers BILLIONS of dollars putting petty little weekend recreationalists in jail for getting high.... If American was serious, like the word WAR seems to imply, they'd try to stop it at the source... Given all the money spent, and all the jail sentences handed out, drug use is ever growing...
So really ANY efficiency would be nice.... Except that I KNOW the 'powers' are not really INTERESTED in stopping drug use... if the average joe-lunch-box ever sobered up enough to see how badly he was taking it up the back-side there'd be a revolution....
It's like anti drinking-and-driving 'campaigns'... what a joke... Technology has existed for a LONG time (pretty much concurrent with whats-his-face inventing the seat belt) that more or less attached a breathalyser to the starter switch of a car... if you 'blow over' your car automatically locks out the starter for an hour or more... These are only now just starting to see the light of day, and then only on the cars of repeat and repeat offenders... IF your 'leaders' were serious about stopping drinking and driving then there'd be a law saying that ALL cars had to have them!
But your leaders aren't serious... that much is obvious...