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To: Joseph Beltran who wrote (36744)	8/14/2000 1:31:19 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 70976

OT-Prohibition "It is high time IMHO that we started looking to our individual states to address most of our grievances..." Wouldn't it be chaotic if each state determined the legality of a product such as cigarettes? I dont think that would work in this case if prohibition was the course chosen. Again, I am not recommending that course just brainstorming. I do agree about the danger of Fed intrusion in our lives but there are some areas where they currently intrude upon freedoms that most folks are in favor of such as the military. So prohibition of cigarettes if viewed as the preventing the sale of a poisonous substance if used as directed, might not really be an intrusion of freedom if one buys into the above premise. Then it would be similar to the ban on sale of ddt or nukes, not a Fed in the bedroom.

To: Joseph Beltran who wrote (36744)	8/14/2000 2:46:57 PM
From: Cary Salsberg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

OT RE:It is high time IMHO that we started looking to our individual states to address most of our grievances and radically limit the role of the feds. I believe that the idea of States Rights which motivated our Founding Fathers and your argument was pretty much forfeited by 100 years of bigotry (1865-1965) institutionalized by many states. The televised images of states loosing attack dogs on young adults attempting to enter public schools will not fade.