Re: Should MARIJUANA be legal?


Land Surveyor (LS5421-CA) wrote:
> RE: crimes
> .......I think making it illegal in the first place was a crime.
> Sanity RE [Rascal Emeritus]
>
> The government decides what is and what isn't a crime.

"Government of the people, by the people, and for the people"? NOT!
If the oligarchs were as subject to the law as the rest of us peons
they'd be incarcerated. The law is spoz'ta be the collective will of
the sovereign people spoken through a representative legislature within
the constitutional paradigm, but it ain't.

>
> Some people speak of the 'Drug War', a good way to refer to the antics
> and policies of our elected officers. My conversations with elders
> (AKA old timers) [as mentioned on Oct 27, 9:43 am post] led me to
> believe that the first 'casualties' of the war on marijuana (AKA
> mexican tobacco) was not the 'mexicans' (now called mexican-americans)
> but instead the early ranchers and farmers of the western states. They
> talked about fields of worthless marijuana that had been converted into
> fields of russian-thistle in just one years time, 'thanks' to the US
> government. Their complaints were many (too many to list on this
> forum).

The "Drug War" is just a war on the poor.

Sanity RE

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