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To: Real Man who wrote (42450)	10/5/2011 6:41:55 PM
From: Big Black Swan	Respond to of 71442

I once had coca tea in Peru - a traditional drink there, and very useful in cases of altitude sickness (which I had in a major way). From what I can tell everyone drinks it there, whether sick or not ;} It certainly did the trick - very refreshing indeed. I imagine the old coca cola had similar properties. Strange to think that if I drank that tea in the US I'd be looking at prison time. find it interesting that "War on drugs" and decoupling of the dollar from gold happened the same year Hmmm, never noticed that. Interesting indeed. My take is that modern societies add more laws every year - and it's rare for a law to be annulled. So laws accrue. And so after enough years have passed all kinds of stuff becomes illegal. Even if no one can remember why.

To: Real Man who wrote (42450)	10/5/2011 9:31:31 PM
From: bull_dozer	8 Recommendations Respond to of 71442

War on Drugs... Well, $50 billion makes just chasing the dopers an industry the same size as the movie business, and slightly bigger than the telecom industry. Furthermore, the narco cop industry is joined at the hip with the American prison industry -- the world's largest -- a $45 billion enterprise based on drug convictions. Which of course entails the court systems and billions to the syndicate of lawyers, the state's officially recognized commissars of peasant conflicts. Standing in the wings are the rest of the commissariat, such as the drug rehabilitation professionals. With such a fat hog of public funds there for the cutting, it was only natural that the Department of Homeland Security would increasingly focus its 225,000 employees and $42 billion budget on the drug wars. As for the working slob who has never even seen a bag of weed, he gets his chance to contribute to the drug war industry too, through drug testing in the workplace (25 million tests per year at between $25 and $50 each). With America now panhandling on the global street corner for international loans, nobody is about to cut loose the domestic profits of the drug war industry -- profits sustained, of course, by its dedicated lack of success. Message 27029858