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To: koan who wrote (783552)	5/5/2014 4:55:23 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578341

>> Hell, liberals would have legalized pot decades ago. Yes, when I was a liberal and didn't have anything substantive in my life, I would have wanted pot legalized. I opposed legalization for many years, because like essentially EVERY politician of the era, I believed it was a good approach to curtailing the use of substances. Today, it is clear that making drugs illegal does absolutely nothing toward reducing abuse and is totally counterproductive. If you could end drug addiction by locking up a few drug abusers, I might could get on board as serving the greater good. It is just one more failed big government program that has been allowed to persist for decades passed any reasonable useful life because that is what government thrives on. The same big government you are totally infatuated with. So, my support legalization should not be mistaken for support for drug abuse. I think it is stupid, and something that intelligent people wouldn't waste their limited time on. But you don't improve the situation by locking people up. Locking people up for drug crime is just more big government. I consistently hate big government. You, OTOH, hate the things that don't agree with your own comfort zone. You love big government, except when it interferes with your ability to smoke dope. This is what you call "hypocrisy" and while it happens in all political persuasions, some are particularly suited for it.