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   From: governor.swill@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 21:54:16 -0400, Mr. B1ack    
   wrote:   
      
   >Look ... half a dozen years ago there was a huge   
   >propaganda campaign aimed at cutting off legal   
   >opiates - that dreadful "hillbilly heroin" - that was   
   >bringing in, wow, like two or three OD cases to   
   >the ER every week.   
   >   
   >So ... all those who liked their Oxy's were gonna turn   
   >into good little productive puritans, right ?   
   >   
   >FAIL !   
   >   
   >Instead of turning right to go to the drug store they   
   >turned left instead and visited their friendly neighborhood   
   >heroin dealers. Quality unknown, but who cares ? If   
   >you wanted a buzz, someone was there to sell it   
   >to you.   
   >   
   >Now it's a bunch of ODs per DAY ... a giant step   
   >backwards from the alleged goals of the initial   
   >puritanical campaign. Will anybody acknowledge   
   >this ? Hell no. There's more money and glory in   
   >the 'drug war' instead.   
   >   
   >The puritanistic mindset always creates twice as   
   >many evils as it proposes to eliminate.   
   >   
   >Maybe it's time to ban puritans instead ?   :-)   
      
   We'd have to repeal the First Amendment first. ;)   
      
   Swill   
   --   
   "Bungled collusion is still collusion." -- Charles Krauthammer.   
      
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