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talkpoliticsGiven that the "War on Drugs" appears to the rest of the world to be lost:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13624303
I wonder what would make the US finally give it up as a lost cause?
Is it that there is just too much invested in the "War" for the US powers-that-be to relinquish one of its sacred cows? Or given the CIA's historic role in Latin America, and in various "drugs for weapons" and "drugs for freedom" operations world-wide (TM Oliver North, Taliban insurgency, et al) would liberalising the drugs laws run counter to US interests?
My own opinion is that we should legalise immediately. But I may just be an old hippie.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13624303
I wonder what would make the US finally give it up as a lost cause?
Is it that there is just too much invested in the "War" for the US powers-that-be to relinquish one of its sacred cows? Or given the CIA's historic role in Latin America, and in various "drugs for weapons" and "drugs for freedom" operations world-wide (TM Oliver North, Taliban insurgency, et al) would liberalising the drugs laws run counter to US interests?
My own opinion is that we should legalise immediately. But I may just be an old hippie.
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Date: 2/6/11 18:39 (UTC)It's both. It doesn't have to be one or the other. The origins of marijuana criminalization clearly show that.
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Date: 2/6/11 18:50 (UTC)Why didn't Bayer just pay off congress to get Tylenol (acetaminophen) banned?
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Date: 2/6/11 19:01 (UTC)I'm not familiar with the history of Bayer/Tylenol, so...
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Date: 2/6/11 19:30 (UTC)Aspirin itself is a naturally occurring chemical in the barks of some trees. This fear that a market will be made irrelevant because people can plant something in their back yard would be the height of paranoia if it really was the basis for the argument being put forward. I mean, why do people buy tomatoes when they can just grow 'em themselves? Refinement, for one thing. There are so many counter-examples to this that it quickly becomes obvious why its ridiculous.