So, you think that during the Opium Wars, drugs were "not really a problem"?

The government didn't make drugs illegal for our health or benefit - they were outlawed in the name of various political expediencies. The most egregious was Nixon's thoroughly unconstitutional decree that drug possession (as opposed to interstate trade clauses) was to be a crime. Once that passed, we had "the war on drugs" which has been so wonderfully effective that drug use has increased steadily since its inception and we now have drugs such as crack and crystal meth - the natural by-products of black market sales in prohibition. Now that alcohol is legal, you don't see people blowing themselves up making gin in their basements - the same logic would apply with drug prohibition. Had cocaine and weed not been banned, "inventive" folks wouldn't have come up with things like crack to maximize profit on minimized risk.

Though, I have to say - I think it's kind of cute that you think big mommy government was looking out for you when it outlawed drugs.

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

So if you hate Moore, then juding by the above post, you must hate Bush as well.

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

- George Orwell, 1984

Enigma2: Never saw ANY documentaries on drug usage other than "Reefer Madness." And somehow I don't think that counts. I merely happen to know history...

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"Tomorrow, you're all going to wake up in a Brave New World, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem cell research laboratory, run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags."

Whoopie Goldberg. Eddie Murphy as Sec. Of Defense.



Need I say more?

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I'd vote for "neither", but that was not an option.

Assuming that I had the right to vote in the Presidential election, I'd vote for someone with reasonably much experience of holding elected office.

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President Josiah Bartlet: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry: Maybe they don't and they can't add.

Oh! dear, I almost feel sorry for rightwing. Do yu think we may have frightened her/him (I suspect it's a him) away?

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Lucky is he (sic) who has been able to understand the causes of things
Virgil

It wasn't on drug usage but actually about the use of cannabis sativa down the centuries to the present day.

I wish more people knew 'history' instead of just the official story!

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Lucky is he (sic) who has been able to understand the causes of things
Virgil

Al Gore

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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
~~ Socrates

really? Bush lies and people die... Moore lies and people laugh...

I'd rather have someone that made me laugh than one that is responsible for thousands of deaths... but that's just me... not that I'd vote for Moore... it takes more than being a comedian to be president... altho almost anyone would be better than the doofus we have now.

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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
~~ Socrates

I don't know why you haven't nominated Robin Williams.

He has the right credentials - a history of drug addiction and when he speaks, people laugh!!

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Lucky is he (sic) who has been able to understand the causes of things
Virgil

if those were the credentials to running for us president, why dont you run enigma? you have silly ideas that make people laugh, and i am sure that you could not come up with those goofy thoughts with out alittle shall we say... inspiration?

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www.myspace.com/crusade7

Sean Penn..

... which still far surpasses W Bush.

ted, in case you have forgotten, I am fortunate enough to be an Australian, living in Australia. You have heard of Australia, the country which has taxation without representation!!

MY silly ideas, as you call them, ted, have been influenced by some of the greatest thinkers down the ages. In fact, two of the, acknowledged, greatest living intellectuals, Richard Deakin and Noam Chomsky, agree with many of my ideas! I'm not familiar with the writings of the third-named!

Silly potshots so rarely hit their target, ted.

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Lucky is he (sic) who has been able to understand the causes of things
Virgil

Sean Penn for sure. Didn't he do a great job as gov of Louisiana, till he got shot. Maybe he learned a thing or two playin a politician.

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better to be thought a fool.....".....yeah, Twain I think it was.