Re: Should personal ammounts of Marijuanna be decriminalized?

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From: Glenn Olson
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:00

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On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:42:25 -0700, "Mark"
<mark1w@N.O.S.P.A.M.oanet.com> wrote:

>> > Your also forgetting that most of the money is spent going after the
>> > dealers, not the users.
>>
>> From what I understand, it's about equal in Canada. In the US, the vast
>> majority of the money goes to pursuing the users.
>
>Perhaps that's because the US actually puts dealers in jail.  Here we just
>thank them
>for bringing more money into the economy.

Waitaminute...

We spend lots of money going after the dealers, just so we can thank
them for bringing money into the economy?

Meanwhile, the US spends their money going after the users and somehow
manages to jail the dealers?

I don't suppose you'd like to explain that...

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From: Glenn Olson <kaos@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: Should personal ammounts of Marijuanna be decriminalized?
Date: 2000/04/10
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