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End the War on Drugs!

April 1st, 2009 | government, liberty, police state by Populist Party Daily Updates

The best way to fight violent drug cartels would be to pull the rug out from under their profits by bringing these transactions out into the sunlight.  People who, unwisely, buy drugs would hardly opt for the back alley criminal dealer as a source, if a coffeehouse-style dispensary was an option.   FULL ARTICLE

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#1 Michael Boldin on 04.01.09 at 11:10 am

the drug war is based on a repugnant assertion: that you do not have ownership over your own body; that you don’t have the right to decide what you’ll do with your body, with your property and with your life. The position of the drug warriors is that you should be in jail if you decide to do something with your body that they don’t approve of.

#2 Gary on 04.03.09 at 1:08 pm

Is this man brilliant or what?  If we only had 99 more Ron Pauls in the Senate, this country would be as great as it could be!

#3 Spoonerite on 04.06.09 at 12:04 pm

Yeah, brilliant is right Gary.  But that’s the problem with government – we can’t expect many good guys to be interested in scrambling to get in a position of all that power, simply to turn it down.    The problem we have is not that we don’t elect the right people.  It’s the power that’s in the hands of this monster we call “our” government. 

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