XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.republicans, alt.politics   
   From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 07/27/2017 06:51 PM, Mr. B1ack wrote:   
   > On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:28:54 -0700 (PDT), Walt In Seattle   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Jeff Sessions, if he manages to remain U.S. Attorney General, shows signs   
   he may be willing to take on states that have allowed people to legally   
   possess/use pot   
      
   	Jeff Sessions wants to return to the thrilling days of yesteryear when   
   everyone knew their places, women were in the   
   kitchen never in a pulpit or seen without husbands, black people   
   kowtowed and were never mentioned in a positive light unless they   
   were Broadway entertainers, Gay people were invisible and   
   Transgenders were unheard of.   
      
   	Au Bas Sessions!   
      
   	bliss   
   	   
   >   
   >     Yea ... the 'drug war' mentality is still alive and well,   
   >     despite overwhelming evidence that it causes far   
   >     more harm in far more ways than what it intends   
   >     to control.   
   >   
   >     The latest major face-plant is, of course, the Great   
   >     War On Opioids. Used to be opiate-lovers could go   
   >     to the pharmacy and get good clean quality stuff ...   
   >     but when the War On Opioids started a few years   
   >     ago the puritans celebrated their self-righteousness   
   >     by cutting off most of that supply. So .. everybody   
   >     was gonna become a good little Xian soldier hmm ?   
   >     Nope, they turned left at the light and met up with   
   >     the friendly neighborhood heroin dealers instead ...   
   >     now the complaints about a few ODs a week has   
   >     become a bucketfull of ODs per day.   
   >   
   >     But nobody wants to notice that ...   
   >   
   >     IMHO, puritans aside, the WOD isn't very much   
   >     about drugs per-se. It's about all the MONEY that   
   >     surrounds them. There's kickbacks, but there's   
   >     also a vast amount spend on every aspect of   
   >     the "war" - a river everybody gets to dip into.   
   >   
   >     So, I do NOT expect the federals to stop or even   
   >     meaningfully reduce their 'war' - and there's gonna   
   >     be even more money floating around if they have   
   >     to go into certain states and try to stamp out the   
   >     pot trade.   
   >   
   >     Clinton didn't stop the 'war', "W" didn't stop the 'war',   
   >     Obama escalated the 'war' and now Trump is gonna   
   >     escalate it even further. BIG money in psychic   
   >     micromanagement it seems. It just feels so RIGHT,   
   >     in a nation built by so many ejected puritan types ....   
   >   
      
      
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