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To: budweeder who wrote (3870)	7/13/2000 4:22:17 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

Bud Here is a site that talks about drugs and drug policy/laws. It is difficult to change our ideas about these issues until you see where they have come from. druglibrary.org There's a lot at this site but I've hooked up the item on the Harrison Act (which taxed some drugs and licensed doctors), the forerunner of all drug laws and the forerunner of the National Firearms Act in tactics. The Pure Food and Drug Law, which was intended mostly to inform was considered to be more instrumental in helping addicts (mostly women taking patent medicines) at the turn of the century. (Let me know if you have anything against us citizens having military weapons (they're as dangerous as drugs, right) as they have been given a good "demonization" by government for the last 65 years.:) I believe there are so many unjust laws, as well as unnecessary laws that it is economically unfeasible to rectify them without some years of diligent stripping away of layers and layers of bureaucracy. I choose to believe the pendulum will swing this way but the change will be gradual as always. We will have to re-purchase our freedoms in one way or another.