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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (1081)	5/16/2001 3:17:54 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 14610

We fill our prisons with people who are more a threat to themselves then anyone else and release people who are really bad to make room. Uh, yeah, that's often exactly what we are doing, isn't it? Good phrasing. Tjat really makes the stupidity of the current approach stand out. Treat it as a medical problem rather then a legal one. Legalize and tax the crap out of it and remove the profit incentive for the gangs. Better to tax it at a reasonable rate, I think. High taxes create black markets of their own. I doubt everyone on earth is going to run right out and toke up just because it is legal the same way everyone isn't running around drunk. Were marijuana and drugs legal, I personally would leave the drugs strictly alone. they can kill you easily and unexpectedly. Might occassionally use pot; maybe not, too.