Date:  Sat, 19 May 2007 12:00AM PDT)
From:    "John French" <mosshead7@yahoo.com>
Subject:  more reason to legalize
To:  redeye@foxnews.com, weekends@cnn.com
Cartels using "terror" tactics south of the border to ensure their drugs go through?
 
- Well, maybe we should quit being hypocritical "watch dog" puritans and legalize drugs and have the government regulate it and, hence forth, significantly decrease the demand on the street level coming from outside the U.S. like w/ these cartels.
 
Our prisons are overcrowded and allot of violent offenders get off or get out earlier and then go commit more, often worse crimes?
 
- Well, maybe we should quit being hypocritical "watch dog" puritans and legalize drugs and have the government regulate it and then we would have less of an overpopulated prison problem and reserve that harsh punishment for the real offenders (not drug takers) - Moreover, which would also give tax payers some well needed relief too.
 
Our courts are overburdened and not enough serious attention and resources are given to violent offenders (like situation O'Reilley cited last nite re: sex offender who was basically let go because of the back-up in our courts and drain on our law enforcement resources) - well instead of O'Reilley blaming the democratic officials and call for all of them to be fired - maybe we should quit being hypocritical "watch dog" puritans and legalize drugs and have the government regulate it so that we can really focus on the serious offenses that occur everyday - where once is too much -
 
I am so sick of irrational, propagated fear on the subject of legalization - It's Pharma, Alcohol, Tobacco companies that do not want illegal drugs legalized and it's the government which enforces that and also creates unnecessary and false propaganda to scare people into why they should be illegal and why people should be so afraid of them because they are bad.
 
A pot plant is not bad = Smoking pot is not bad = It's the agenda seeking, hypocritical "watch dog" puritans who infringe on our rights giving the "act" of smoking a "bad definition" which makes it bad.
 
---To quote Sociologist Maw Weber --- "It's not the act itself that's deviant it's the definition people give to the act which makes it deviant" --- "similarly like beautiful is held in the eye of the beholder" ---
 
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