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In the message section associated with the Reuters story, Dutch Approve Cannabis as Prescription Drug, we found this entry:

Republicans are puritans

I consider myself a conservative Republican. However this is one issue the they have all wrong. They are scared to death of being "soft" on the war on drugs which has been an abject total failure by most accounts.

You want to see the war on drugs? The show "Cops" is a perfect example. They show these butch-hairdo cops busting some toothless crack whore, and high-fiving themselves that they found 2 grams of crack on her. Now that is really pathetic.

The US has a greater percentage of it's people incarcerated, many of these small time drug dealers or even just users. Once you're in the criminal justice system, it becomes very hard to get a job, and it creates a spiral of needing to steal, and "VIOLA" we have created a hardened criminal from a cannabis user!

Let me tell you-don't vote for these PURITANICAL-type Republicans or for that matter Democrats. They are just as bad!

Great remark about the show "Cops".

posted by Quiddity at 9/01/2003 04:20:00 PM