American Drug Policy
POSTED BY: deepgirl187
UPDATED: Sunday, March 2, 2025 04:38
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The broader issue surrounding drug legalization is the notion of personal responsibility. As much as it pains me to acknowledge, some people look to the law for their cues on good and bad (i.e. - if it's legal it's good, and if it's bad it damned well ought to be illegal.) That's the sort of attitude that has driven prohibition in the first place and it's what we're up against if we hope to change things.
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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Quote:Heh, though a significant portion of my blame goes to the European colonial powers and their modern day replacements. The black man may be contracting it through Bush meat, but the White man setup the poor socialogical enviroment enabling it to spread.
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Go ahead- blame it in the black man, oppressor.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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Quote:That's a little better, melanin-challenged one.
Originally posted by citizen:
The black man may be contracting it through Bush meat, but the White man setup the poor socialogical enviroment enabling it to spread.
Notthemanisall
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Quote:Its also what I said (or at least aluded too) in my initial post
Originally posted by chrisisall:
That's a little better, melanin-challenged one.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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Quote:We don't read here; we REACT!!!!
Originally posted by citizen:
Its also what I said (or at least aluded too) in my initial post
Chrisisall
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Hope it does - as for the other...
To quote Richard B Riddick from Pitch Black: Dark Fury.
"I been called a lot of things in my day... that ain't one of em."
-F
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St. Frem. I like it.
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I gotta say, it was nice to hear some good news from the Supremes today. Mandatory minimum sentencing took a pretty good hit and that's a good thing in my book. Getting rid of them, that is.
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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Meh, Chris, if you ever plan to try Canonizing me, a laughable concept given the life I have lived, just make sure ya stick me next to Gabriel Possenti.. heh heh.
Honestly tho, if Anarchism has a patron saint, it'd be Peter Kropotkin.
It sure as hell would not be me.
A saint, or a decent, empathetic, humane person, would be mentally and emotionally crushed and destroyed in under a month of dealing with the kind of issues I do, at the point-blank range which I choose to engage it at... I know, having seen it time and time again as they burn out, flake out, or just implode - did you know police who are given this work are excised from the rest of the force, given special considerations, and then treated for all intents and purposes as a departmental suicide ?
And why ? because it *will* poison and destroy them, it's only a matter of time.
http://www.mainecaan.usm.maine.edu/2001%20Fall/Burnout.htm
Some evils... are best fought with another kind of evil, and while folks like Shelby Earnshaw and Alice Miller do wonders on the public, aboveboard end of things - but when you send someone down the rabbit hole to confront things so ugly that most folk can not, will not, even acknowledge their existence... you'd best make sure to send someone nasty enough in other ways that their own wickedness shields them from being so sandbagged by horror that they cannot function effectively.
Some have accused me of simply selecting a target for that wickedness that no sane person would complain about it being landed on in order to feed it fully, without drawing societies ire.
Sorry for the rant, but it kind rubs me wrong when folks don't quite get that I can do what I do.. cause I am at heart almost as nasty as they are, just in different ways.
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Drug policy in the US is such that if you can grow it on your own and nobody can make money on it, it is illegal.
Anything that has been made in a lab and wasn't tested beforehand is fair game though as long as there is enough money to be made on it to still pay the shareholders after all of the lawsuits.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack
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