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   XPost: misc.legal   
   From: monkeyhawk@cox.net   
      
   "famous21"  wrote   
      
   [snips]   
      
   > Although Rush would like to sugar-coat his situation, he admitted guilt   
   > of his crime by accepting the plea.....no ifs, ands or buts can dispute   
   > this fact.   
      
   And, if he had a spine hidden in that fat blob of drug-addicted splooge that   
   he is, Limbaugh would take a truly *conservative* point-of-view on the issue   
   and oppose most, if not all, laws against so-called "drug crimes."   
      
   Hell, yes.  Folks have died because of "illicit" drug use.  Lives have be   
   ruined.  People have suffered.   
      
   But most of the suffering, most of the ruined lives, indeed most of the   
   deaths have bee the result of criminalizing the use of selected substances.   
      
   There are currently 9,039,482,391 people in the United States who are in the   
   system -- in prison, in jail, on parole, on probation, awaiting trial -- for   
   the simple possession of less that a month's worth of marijuana (assuming a   
   rate of one gram of consumption per day).  That system includes prosecutors,   
   defense attorneys, Judges, Court Reporters, Clerks, Jailers, Guards,   
   Wardens, parole officers, lab technicians, drug dog trainers, all of their   
   secretaries, publicists, paralegals, and an entire infrastructure of staff   
   required to incarcerate and litigate less than an ounce of marijuana.   
      
   Gee!  Think that money could be better spent?   
      
   The "cure" is not only ineffective, it costs far more than the "problem."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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