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   In news:talk.politics.drugs, Bobbie Sellers  posted on Thu,   
   10 Feb 2011 08:22:06 -0800 the following:   
      
   >     1. AMERICAN FACING DEATH PENALTY IN EGYPT FOR HEMP OIL [FEATURE]   
   >        Lost in Translation: Mostafa Soliman's trials and tribulations   
   > before and after the protests began, for importing hemp oil into Egypt   
   > border on the surreal. But there's nothing funny about the possible   
   > death sentence he's looking at.   
      
   I bet Newt Gingrich is praising Egypt over that one.  He's the one who   
   wanted to give the death sentence to anyone bringing more than $80 worth   
   of pot over the USA/Mexico border.  I can't believe anybody would ever   
   even consider voting that lunatic into office.  Don't let that soft voice   
   and wide smile fool you.  Newt Gingrich is pathologically evil, which   
   means he doesn't even realize how evil he is.   
      
   >     3. TWO FLORIDA BROTHERS KILLED IN DRUG OPERATION   
   >        A pair of South Florida brothers have become the fourth and fifth   
   > people to be killed during drug law enforcement operations in the US   
   > this year.   
      
   Oh yes.  Kill the druggies with guns before the drugs kill them.   
      
   >     5. MEXICO DRUG WAR UPDATE   
   >        Two El Paso teenagers were among the victims of   
   > prohibition-related violence in Mexico this past week. The death toll   
   > since Calderon took office is now at more than 35,000.   
      
   And Obama thinks this is good.  He must.  I certainly don't see him saying   
   we should legalize drugs.  And he keeps spouting off about competition.   
   Yet drug cartels are COMPETING for territory.  Competition is bad.   
   Prohibition is bad.   
      
   >    10. HEMISPHERIC THINK TANK SAYS TIME FOR DRUG POLICY RETHINK   
   >        Add the Inter-American Dialogue to the ever-growing list of drug   
   > war critics. The group has just issued a new report calling for a   
   > fundamental rethinking of US drug policy.   
      
   Amazing that it takes some "think tank" of high-minded yo-yos to come up   
   with an idea stoners have known about since before prohibition ever began.   
      
   >    11. IRAN DECLARES WAR ON METH   
   >        The Islamic Republic is resorting to the same old hard-line   
   > tactics as it confronts a new -- to Iran -- drug threat.   
      
   Wow.  America is just like Iran!   
      
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   cannabidraake@earthlink.net (no longer valid, but I still like it.  :-)   
      
   "....The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full   
   utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight,   
   sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly   
   mad and dangerous world."   
   - Carl Sagan (1971),   
   - published in Dr. Lester Grinspoon's Marihuana Reconsidered.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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