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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (240560)5/14/2003 9:59:36 AM
From: Shack  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 436258
 
Sad, isn't it? And its not like you guys don't have your own rabble-rousers.-g

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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (240560)5/14/2003 10:40:30 AM
From: Earlie  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
WF:

I hate drugs with a passion (from earlier loss of a couple of great students) and I consider smoking anything to be about the wierdest self-administered stupidity I've ever seen, but as was the case with booze in the prohibition era, and highway speeding laws today, if 90% of the population doesn't think a "law" makes sense, it becomes non-enforceable.

Take a look at the remarkable percentage of the US population that is incarcerated (an inordinate percentage of which is drug-related) and consider the staggering costs of this to your society. Better to bring it under the aegis of government regulation, legitimize it, and tax the heck out of it (as is the case with tobacco and booze). Kills two birds with one stone. And if a small percentage of the bucks currently spent on drug busting were to be diverted and spent on educating our young people on the topic, we might even see useage fall somewhat. JMHO.

I think your leaders ought to pay a bit of attention to this Canuck.

Best, Earlie
Best, Earlie



To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (240560)5/14/2003 12:51:00 PM
From: Terry Maloney  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 436258
 
We're a non-nucular nation ... how could we possibly be sovereign? <g/ng>



To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (240560)5/14/2003 7:41:39 PM
From: Terry Maloney  Respond to of 436258
 
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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (240560)5/14/2003 7:41:39 PM
From: Terry Maloney  Respond to of 436258
 
SI does it again ...



To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (240560)5/14/2003 7:49:56 PM
From: Terry Maloney  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 436258
 
We did cave after all, according to the CBC ...

Which is seriously bad news. Chong's got no asylum, and we've got no cover.

Cretien's no amateur politician ... he must have been seriously blindsided by the 'ferocity' of Ashcroft's response. <ng>

(Personally I'd rather live free or die, but I'm not sure if jj is going to lend me any nukes ... -g)