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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE

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To: PROLIFE who wrote (18838)	3/30/2008 12:16:40 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) of 25737

"whether it should be legal cannot be the question..." Why not? Doesn't an American citizen have a right to express his political opinion? (If you could step aside for a moment Pro... say you could time-travel back to alcohol prohibition in America. A prohibition that I'd personally argue was fully legal, unlike the current prohibition, since the alcohol ban was legally placed into the American Constitution... would you have argued then that American citizens had no right to disagree about the rightfulness of prohibition, or to argue for changes in the law?) Re: "bottom line is that RIGHT NOW it is illegal and also dangerous...IF it became legal, it would still be dangerous to others" 'Dangerous' ACCORDING to whom? By WHAT MEASURE? Certainly not by any medical measure. At least not in comparison to most anything you are likely to have in your own medicine cabinent right now, including aspirin and ibuprofen... not to mention most any of the governmentally regulated (quality guaranteed, distribution controlled, and tax revenue producing) psychoactive recreational substances of equal or greater social popularity such as tobacco or alcohol....

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