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From: bliss@sfo.com
Tracey12 wrote:
> On Jan 18, 11:09 am, M_P wrote:
>> On Jan 17, 6:16 am, Tracey12 wrote:
>>
>>> Nothing unifies the left
>> I'm on the right, and as such oppose the big-government War On (Some)
>> Drugs.
>>
>>> like a perceived attack on their mind
>>> expanding, religious experience of smoking dope.
>> I don't consider smoking dope any more or less a "mind expanding
>> religious experience" than drinking the legal drug alcohol.
>>
>>> Some ancient cultures
>>> used peyote. Old hippies and some who just hold on to the ideals of
>>> Marx, Lenin, and Stalin and who often reject present day society
>>> gather around a ziplock bag full of what was once thought of as a
>>> common weed. To them, its the sacrament, the unifier, and sometimes
>>> in this dark world, the only thing they can hold on to.
>> Possibly true of some pot smokers ... but so what? Should we ban for
>> all adults everything enjoyed by old hippies? Ban Jimi Hendrix CDs and
>> tie-dyed T-shirts?
>
> Well, dope and alcohol abuse represent a major set of problems for our
> wonderful country. Why do we want to legalize another substance that
> will cause millions more to become users? 60s hippies are who we have
> in government today. They are horrible leftists who cannot shake
> their love of big government / socialism / communism. Just because
> the old hippies want something does not mean we have to grant it to
> them when we KNOW it will dramatically impact America in a negative
> way.
After a decade of feckless reckless Republican rule how can
you malign a sober set of centrist Democrats? You certainly are
blind to the last 8 years of Republican controlled congress enabling
the greed of Wall Street and the debt producing capacity of two
or more foreign wars badly conducted by an Administration lost
in a dream of hegemony.
bliss
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