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To Greyhawk:
Let me get this straight: drug use is the problem?
You're saying that with a straight face? (Hey, maybe I'm more tired than I thought, and missed something.)
No no, seriously, I want to make sure I've got it right: are you saying that regular people, minding their own business, having done no one any harm, privately consuming the same sort of plant products that have been available to the whole of humanity for the span of humanity (prior to the age of the nanny-state decreeing by fiat that they are contraband), and continuing to harm nobody, are causing such a problem ON THEIR OWN that it is somehow okay to use government to force prior restraint on not just them but all of us, at the barrels of an unaccountable federal army? 'Cause ya know, once the principle of forced prior restraint has been accepted for one thing, there's all kinds of other things that enterprising thinkers can add to the "prohibited" list...and you've already bought in to the idea.
Government now simply creates criminals where there were none before, simply by calling something contraband. (Neat, huh?) This thereby creates a black market where there was none before, which provides almost unlimited "enforcement" and further marketing opportunities. And the best part (for the state--the only people to make out in this whole sordid mess, or haven't you noticed?) is that once they decide you can't have something, they get to poppa cap in y'ass if you get uppity and complain. For the good of us all.
This is Brady Bunch logic at its core--useful idiocy par excellence. Hell, "easy acceptance" may be a patented term there at Brady Central!
This is all kinds of NOT about "harmless fun".
I had my own hypocrisy exposed years ago, when I tried to justify that drugs were somehow different than guns, viz being "okay" to regulate. It's simply not defensible. Either you're free until you harm someone, or you're not. Period.
Feb 4, 2009, 6:51:00 PM
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