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The Farce on the War on Drugs »

Posted by: populist 2 years, 7 months ago

Envision a world where terrorists don't buy weapons from money made selling drugs. Imagine a world where felony crime drops over 50 percent and local police focus on drunk drivers, child predators and terrorists. Envision a world where if one day you or a loved one has a drug problem, you see a doctor not a judge. America can have this world, if

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  • Avg rating: (+6/-0 6)bubba2
    bubba2
    May 12, 2007, 12:17 a.m.

    ALL drugs need to be legal. Period.

    They would be taxed and regulated, like alcohol and tobacco, and the government would probably be OUT of debt in a few decades because of the tax revenue and the savings of billions every year that had been spent on the "war on drugs".

    As long as tobacco and alcohol are legal, it is a DOUBLE-STANDARD to not legalize all other drugs.

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