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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (782164)4/27/2014 4:38:28 PM
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>> Cannabis lollipops is a hell of a hill to fight for rights on.

It isn't just cannabis lollipops, or marijuana in general. It is a war on drugs that has destroyed many, many times more lives than it has helped. I read a story of a man yesterday who has been sentenced to life without parole for being convicted of possession of LSD with intent to sell. He was 23 when arrested.

LSD is a bad drug but it isn't THAT bad. It isn't so bad that a man should receive a sentence more harsh than most murderers in this country receive.

That sentence was handed out not because it was just but because of a war on individual rights that is raging out of control.

And YOU support it. Wrongheadedly, for sure, but you support it. No one argues that drugs aren't harmful. The argument is over which is more harmful -- the drugs or the war on drugs. And for those who are informed there is just no argument there -- the war on drugs has done far more harm to far more people than the drugs themselves EVER did.

You argue for it on the basis that you are opposed to drug use. Most of us are. But the appropriate measuring stick is which does the least harm to our children -- marijuana, or the laws against it. It is really a no-brainer -- the laws are far worse than the drug.
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