🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <33EA68E3.4DA5@internetwis.com> die_spammer@internetwis.com writes:

>    I watched an A&E special on Prohibition last weekend.  If they show
> it again,  I *highly* suggest that everyone watch it.  The parallels
> between then and now-- crime, corruption, public cynicism toward the
> law, etc. are so close to today that it is truly sickening to realize
> how idiotic and clueless the "War" really is.  Prohibition should have
> been called "The Organized Crime Establishment and Beneficent Act." 
> It's sole "accomplishment" was to take a popular, inexpensive, easily
> produced consumer item and place its manufacture, distribution and sale
> *entirely* into the hands of unregulated and untaxed (YES, POLITICIANS,
> I SAID *UNTAXED*) criminals.
> 
>    Anybody care to argue that drug prohibition has accomplished anything
> more or different?

Nope.

Not me.

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