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To: carranza2 who wrote (78234)	2/27/2003 6:27:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Drug policy is as fascinating a subject as foreign policy, and equally complex--perhaps more so because the hypocrisies and the real risks are generally not recognized by J6P.> Drug policy is foreign policy and now we have the absurd spectacle of the UN dabbling in dope when the primary reason for their existence, avoiding wars between nations, is ignored or ineffectually handled with hand-wringing. The USA is ditching the hand-wringing and has dealt with the Taleban and Osama's hangers-on. Now they are dealing with Saddam's megalomania. Like all government games, the drug war is primarily keeping in business hordes of hangers on in the government industry, which promotes dope and stuff as being a good idea among the self-determination anti-establishment mob [of which there are a lot of us]. The easiest way to 'win' the war on drugs is to forget about it, repeal the stupid laws and leave people to wreck themselves if they choose to. They jump off high buildings, smash their cars and selves, inhale exhaust and cigarettes, guzzle artery and brain blockers with no nutrients and otherwise self-destruct. Suffocating everyone isn't the answer, though about half the population thinks it is, until their particular interests are suffocated. There is too much smothering going on. If somebody wants to ingest tobacco, opium, cocaine, mushrooms or other plant toxins, then I don't really care. It's their life. I certainly don't want to pay for a government department or 10 to play games chasing them, locking them up or shooting them out of the sky [oh, that's right, that was an innocent family flying a little aeroplane - the collateral damage is serious]. Those most opposed to legalizing drugs would be the drug dealers [no profits if the stuff's legal] and the government departments who have lots of important jobs, with lots of money, to fail to stop the use of dope by dopes]. The problem is authoritarian bossy britches wanting to run other people's lives and generally be in charge. That's a foreign policy problem too. Mqurice