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To: marktwain; Carbonsteel
>The only people who benefit from the drug war are government agencies, politicians, and drug dealers.

The rest of us all suffer from it.<

How many rehabilitation centers were built to treat drug addicted fools? The staff certainly appreciate their jobs.

How many prisons were built to contain drug addicted fools? The staff certainly appreciate their jobs.

How many hospital rooms were built to treat drug addicted fools? The staff certainly appreciate their jobs.

How many police officers are gainfully employed to arrest drug addicted fools on American streets? Think about all the crimes committed by drug addicts searching for some money to buy a line of crack. The police officers certainly appreciate their jobs. The insurance agents and security service companies also smile when you call to report a crime.

How many articles and books have been written about illegal drug usage? Those writers, editors and publishers all appreciate their share of the cut.

This list is almost unending, thanks to drug addiction. Yes, illegal drugs provide for a large part of the money that circulates within America. Don’t ever think that local and state police departments or the Drug Enforcement Agency want to become successful at this task. If we were to successfully crush illegal drug usage there would be a lot of people out of work because their jobs are directly tied into the millions of drug addicted fools in America.

10 posted on 12/30/2007 10:28:11 AM PST by B4Ranch (( "Freedom is not free, but don't worry the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share." ))
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To: B4Ranch
How many rehabilitation centers were built to treat drug addicted fools? The staff certainly appreciate their jobs..........

How many hospital rooms were built to treat drug addicted fools? The staff certainly appreciate their jobs.

I'm not sure the need for rehabilitation centers and hospital rooms would go down if drugs were legalized.

And now a flashback from the past. Legalized drugs in Zurich Switzerland at "Needle Park"


11 posted on 12/30/2007 10:39:49 AM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: B4Ranch

But... but... but... the price of lettuce will go up, inflation will soar, and our economy will tank without illegal alien lettuce pickers. Some of the folks on FR tell me so.


19 posted on 12/30/2007 12:10:04 PM PST by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: B4Ranch
Think about all the crimes committed by drug addicts searching for some money to buy a line of crack.

Crack comes in rocks.

Powdered coke is done in lines.

20 posted on 12/30/2007 12:12:46 PM PST by humblegunner (My KungFu is ten times power.©)
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To: B4Ranch
The war on drugs is a huge industry. It's a fiasco that has filled our jails, court rooms...The industry employs tens of thousands of interpreters, judges, cops, probation.. attorneys...The list is endless. These people are making a great living off this fiasco.

Seasoned cops will tell ya that all these raids, busting down doors with swat teams etc etc is a total waste of resources, man power and tax dollars. But it's a massive industry where those in government are making a very lucrative living off this "drug war". Big time job security.

Think about it, the Fedgov allows and even encourages tens of millions of illegals to enter, illegals that smuggle in 700 plus TONS of dope a year. They then run around forcing hundreds of thousand into the legal "machine" that literally sucks the money and assets out of them...Seizing property, fines, fees, court costs, bail, building jails, hiring more attorneys, cops, judges....

It's a never ending fiasco and a big government golden goose.

22 posted on 12/30/2007 12:40:18 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: B4Ranch
You left out the extra prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges, plus all their hangers-on & teat-suckers.

Oh, and all those ‘gainfully employed’ Community Activists running enabling institutions, like needle exchanges, flop houses, and so forth exclusively for the addicted fools.

30 posted on 12/30/2007 2:08:37 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (If God didn't want a Liberal/RINO hanging from every tree, He wouldn't have created so much rope!)
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