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Six American Zeroes: Reason Enough to Support California Prop 19
Six American Zeroes: Reason Enough to Support California Prop 19
I'm not a California voter, but I came across this article in my news reader and thought it was relevant to this discussion. Sorry if its already been discussed:
Whole Story: http://narcosphere.narconews.com/th...roes-reason-enough-support-california-prop-19
Six American Zeroes: Reason Enough to Support California Prop 19
I'm not a California voter, but I came across this article in my news reader and thought it was relevant to this discussion. Sorry if its already been discussed:
As support continues to grow for California’s November referendum to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana, the six US drug czars from four different administrations have now flailed together to try and stop the biggest electorate in the nation from bringing America back to its senses. In an August 25 column in the Los Angeles Times, Why California should just say no to Prop 19, the six epic losers posse up and ride out West in an attempt to rescue their failed cause.
Because memories are short, let’s review all the big successes of these brave and valiant drug czars, who assuredly saved the nation from drugs and drug abuse and all the violence and corruption caused by policies of prohibition all these years, so we can remind ourselves of why these six American Zeroes are the last people we should listen to when it comes to figuring out how to solve problems associated with illegal drugs.
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As Tom Lehrer says, parody is dead when stuff like this happens: the six guys who most embody the failure of prohibitionist drug policies – none of whom vote in California, by the way - now are telling California voters to continue to bankrupt their state budget on enforcement of laws that can’t be successfully enforced. They might as well have titled their open letter, “We Screwed Up and You Can, Too!”
There can be no more ringing endorsement to vote Yes on Proposition 19 than its opposition from the very bureaucrats that exacerbated the problems associated with illegal drugs over the past two decades with their stubborn and cowardly cling to same policies that clearly have never worked, and never will. But they and their lost war are now at the mercy of California voters, who in November could deliver the fatal blow to a budget-busting drug policy that wore out its welcome years ago.
Whole Story: http://narcosphere.narconews.com/th...roes-reason-enough-support-california-prop-19