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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (289108)	5/24/2006 2:14:17 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572361

AS seems to always home in on Bush. Talk about tunnel vision.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (289108)	5/24/2006 2:20:36 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572361

re: you and your fellow potheads are addicted to cannibis You need to get out more.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (289108)	5/24/2006 3:11:25 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1572361

Bush has no solution for the immigration crisis, just agrees with Ted Kennedy that we need to do some damage control. The difference between them is that Bush has been in charge for 5 years and even after 9-11 with its homeland security fears hasn't done jack. He didn't start doing anything until the third election. And prior to that as governor of the state with the largest Mexican border, he didn't do squat either. Do don't try to give Bush a pass on illegal immigration just because he finally talks tough. He talked tough about Iraq, cutting deficits in half and bringing down gas prices too, remember. Talk is cheap.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (289108)	5/24/2006 3:13:08 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572361

As for pot-smoking, the issue there is criminality and common sense. It's silly to make something like that a criminal offense, especially since tens of millions are going to use it anyway and over the years we can see the statistics. Pot has never killed anyone, booze, pills and cigarettes have killed many millions. But they are all legal. Why? The taxes collected on pot sales could pay for half our national health care system, plus making it legal would un-jam our over-crowded court, police and prison systems. You could tax it 500% it would still be cheap. British Columbia has legalized pot and the only problems have been smuggling into the US since it's illegal here. Ditto in Holland where the local kids have almost no interest in pot. So why isn't it legal? Mostly because big Pharmacutical companies want you to pay $1000 a year for their tranquillizers and know pot can be grown for almost nothing. Also it's ridiculous for hemp to be illegal. In fact it's criminal. Hemp is a great cheap easy source of bio-fuel and paper pulp. And hemp was made illegal by the paper lobby which wants to cut down our forests, pollute rivers and charge us ten times as much for paper pulp.