XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.republicans, alt.politics   
   From: governor.swill@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:51:52 -0400, 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   
   >   
   >   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.   
      
   It's also about oppressing and eliminating the poor and non white.   
   Both groups have high drug use rates.   
      
   >   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 ....   
      
   Swill   
   --   
   President Eisenhower, April 16th, 1953:   
      
   "Every gun that’s made, every warship launched,   
   every rocket fired represents, in the final sense,   
   a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,   
   those who are cold and are not clothed."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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