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To: donna
When the hippies discovered LSD, they used it like candy, legally. Look at where those hippie liberals took the country.

Nearly every "evil" drug in existence today was legal and often commercialized during one of the greatest periods of economic and social expansion of the United States.

If they banned tobacco, the drug cartels would be raking in billions by cooking and distributing crack nicotine instead. Hasn't the abject failure of alcohol prohibition taught anyone anything?

12 posted on 08/21/2009 4:00:27 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: mvpel

I don’t think it did. People would rather sit morally on high (no pun intended) and not look at the big picture.


19 posted on 08/21/2009 4:25:37 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: mvpel

bfl. btw, great pics.


42 posted on 08/21/2009 7:45:42 AM PDT by MetaThought
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To: mvpel
Hasn't the abject failure of alcohol prohibition taught anyone anything?

Alcohol is different than all other substances because it is truly a fundamental product and cultural glue of Western Civilization. Alcohol to the Western cultures is far beyond just a product to get high. Attempting to ban it and American nightlife and dinner wine and beer is not comparable to banning a hashish or even Green tea or Kiwi fruits.

66 posted on 08/21/2009 9:00:25 AM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: mvpel
Hasn't the abject failure of alcohol prohibition taught anyone anything?

The possession of alcohol during Prohibition was legal.

194 posted on 08/21/2009 8:21:36 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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