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To: puborectalis who wrote (749875)	10/27/2013 10:27:40 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574827

>> legalization of drugs is coming......would take the crime/murders/profit out of it.......you can't stop people from getting drugs just like Prohibition. So, what do you think about legalizing Oxycodone, so it can be bought over the counter without a prescription? What about "legalizing" blood pressure medicine or Prednisone? Where you think that line needs to be drawn?

To: puborectalis who wrote (749875)	10/28/2013 8:05:25 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 1574827

My point wasn't the legalization of a drug, in this case marijuana, but the way in which certain doctors used it as a money making machine. It wasn't "legalized' simply categorized as a medicinal drug. I think the advertising and lack of actual examinations is unethical. I would prefer they simply made it legal. I am a libertarian and I believe we have far too many laws. So many of these laws are for our safety. Taking the profit out of the drugs would remove the profiteering. It may result in many deaths, among children as well as adults. That would balance a bit after a while. Prostitution would also be better if it were legalized. In that I mean less destructive once the profit of the pimps was taken away. We have legal drinking and people accept less drinking, at least during working hours. The two martini lunch has all but disappeared. There is a stigma attached to smelling of alcohol at inappropriate times. It will not stop the violence on the border and in border states. There will be more kidnaps and armed robberies.

To: puborectalis who wrote (749875)	10/28/2013 10:37:26 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574827

Extraordinary Intelligence Posted on October 27, 2013by stevengoddard “I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. . . . He’s been bored to death his whole life.He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.” Obama’s Valerie Jarrett: Often Whispered about, But Never Challenged \| National Review Online