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   From: George_Smith2222@live.com   
      
   "George Smith"  wrote in message   
   news:kq8e5s$533$1@speranza.aioe.org...   
   > Drugs should be legalized, starting with Cocaine and Marijuana, but they   
   > should only be sold through the mail, by the Government, and with a very   
   > very easy to get prescription - like insomnia for Marijuana.  All   
   > advertising should be restricted and regulated as it already is for   
   > prescription drugs.  If we do not do this, we will have an unstable   
   > Mexico, who knows, perhaps a dictatorship one day, and a drug war 500   
   > years in the future from now.  On the other side of the coin, some states   
   > are legalizing the recreational use of Marijuana.  As long as personal   
   > possession is legal, and there is easy prescription purchase, this is not   
   > a good idea.  The last thing we want is Cocaine and Marijuana to be sold   
   > in every supermarket and gas station and advertisements on T.V. as there   
   > are for Budweiser.  Come to think of it, Budweiser, and all other alcohol   
   > products over 2% should be sold through the mail as well, as should   
   > cigarettes, though these can be sold without prescription and by the   
   > private corporations which already produce them.  And all advertising   
   > should be stopped for alcohol and cigarettes and well.  And we should turn   
   > off below 2% beer sales after 10:00pm.  However, possession without intent   
   > to distribute for commercial purposes of any and all drugs, recreational   
   > and prescription should be legalized immediately, this includes public   
   > possession as well.  It's your constitutional right.  No if ands or buts   
   > or arguing about it.  So, my point is that we should seek temperance of   
   > these potentially abused substances, but not criminalization, and where   
   > criminalization exists, we should seek legalization.   
      
   Rather than legalizing drugs through a very very easy to get prescription as   
   suggested above, the government should begin licensing people to authorize   
   the sale of drugs to themselves.  You take a short class - less than a   
   day -, pass a test, and you become licensed to authorize the sale of a   
   particular drug to yourself.  Similar to the difference between selling   
   alcohol to a 21 year old or to a 12 year old.  Like a prescription, except   
   you don't need the license to possess or buy the drugs, only to allow   
   someone to sell the drugs to you.   
      
   This is the approach that would protect liberty and justice and civil   
   rights, and should be taken at the level drugs are legalized, whether   
   State or Federal.  Any activity that does not endanger or violate the rights   
   of others is not a crime.  Possession is not, in and of itself, a crime.   
   I decry the errors of the law.   
      
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