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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (651558)4/16/2012 10:22:34 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1580828
 
>> State legislators in each state establish their laws based on what they think the voters want. It's always gonna be that way.

I don't have a problem with that. Was just stating the facts.

>> OK, but since all don't, why not just let the ones who don't beg for change in the be addicted to whatever they end up addicted to (if its legal) w/o the state getting involved?

We're going in circles. That's the extreme libertarian point of view which I have already said I don't support.

>>> Not sure I'd base much on a tv show, as we don't know the cases picked are representative. "most of the people murdered have nothing to do with the drug trade. The majority are over marijuana" - maybe the producers are picking over the cases where the victims are so unsavory the public wouldn't care that they got killed.

I'm not "basing" anything on it; it was what made me come to recognize the extent of the problem.

That show, as well as the absurd legal outcome in my friend's case, caused me to look twice at the subject. I would not have come to my views without reading Judge Jim Gray's book. He is probably the most informed individual in the country when it comes to this subject and his book really makes you realize just how stupid and corrupt our current approach is.
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