XPost: alt.drugs.pot, alt.drugs.hard, rec.sport.pro-wrestling   
   From: agent1@section31.org   
      
   On 10/9/2011 5:29 AM, Dr_de_Bauche wrote:   
   > On 09/10/2011 02:45, Nitesbane wrote:   
   >> On 10/8/2011 4:32 PM, FAR-VA~RSPW's Very Own Ubermenschen wrote:   
   >>> US: California pot crackdown targets large dispensaries   
   >>>   
   >>> Those near children also targeted in state, which allows medical   
   >>> marijuana   
   >>> msnbc.com staff and news service reports   
   >>> SACRAMENTO, Calif. â€" Marijuana dispensaries that have large   
   >>> operations or are close to areas with children will be the focus of a   
   >>> federal crackdown in California, U.S. prosecutors said Friday in   
   >>> explaining a campaign that some activists said goes far beyond the   
   >>> Bush   
   >>> administration's policies.   
   >>   
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   >>   
   >> The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of   
   >> the   
   >> people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the   
   >> benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any   
   >> curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.   
   >> -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > ....in 21st century speak, "what kind of message does legalisation   
   > send to the kids?" "we have to protect the kids".   
   >   
   > Despite the fact that under prohibition drugs are far more easily   
   > accessible to children, and far more tempting to use because of the   
   > forbidden fruit factor, than if they were regulated, and taxed or   
   > prescribed according to their potential for harm & addiction   
   > liability, [which would put cannabis under the same regulatory   
   > framework as alcohol & tobacco, & opiates restricted to prescription   
   > by doctors specialising in addiction treatment].   
   >   
   >   
   > I will give you a perfect example of how the forbidden fruit factor   
   > works. Last summer I found a sickly little pot plant growing in the   
   > communal garden where I live, presumably the offspring from a bag-seed   
   > thrown out by the teenagers who congregate nearby to smoke. I brought   
   > it home & stuck it in a flowerpot on my balcony, where it started to   
   > do very well. My daughter, having zero interest in gardening,   
   > completely ignored the latest addition to my little floral collection   
   > - UNTIL SHE OVERHEARD ME TELLING MY BROTHER ABOUT FINDING A CANNABIS   
   > PLANT. Then she became really interested in how well it was growing,   
   > etc etc. If that interest was generated simply because someone   
   > somewhere has said "YOU ARE FORBIDDEN". Its almost as if the whole   
   > prohibition effigy is a subtle & contrived program designed to   
   > ENCOURAGE people to use drugs, not abstain from them.   
   >   
   > Why else would any sane society keep a policy in place for a hundred   
   > years, which fails according to every marker under which it was   
   > established?   
      
      
   You and Eddy are just blowing my mind.  How I can radically differ   
   with both of you at times, and then suddenly you guys make points   
   worthy of reconsideration - it's definitely interesting.   
      
   :)   
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