Dave Hartley
http://www.Asheville-Computer.com
http://www.ioa.com/~davehart
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The
real problem with drugs in the modern world is that they are illegal. Put
simply, the Drug War exists primarily to support — financially and otherwise —
the maintenance of the criminal status of the possession of (some) drugs so that
those (including legislators) who profit big — directly or indirectly — from the
supply of prohibited drugs can continue to do so, at the expense of everyone
else.
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"The high-tech industry, from personal computers to
Internet entrepreneurs, is full of people who make big bucks, smoke fine
weed, and look the other way while thousands continue to be jailed.
Tobacco, alcohol, and crack take an enormous toll, but America has been
mesmerized by a remarkable propaganda campaign that has demonized the use
of soft drugs such as marijuana and psychedelics. The war on some drugs is
wrong, and it's wrong to be silent about it. It's time for the digerati to
break silence on this issue." |
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An immediate amnesty for victims of the "war on drugs".
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The reformulation of national and international
agreements
that hinder decriminalization.
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An end to the "war on drugs".
Prohibition (1920-1933
R.I.P.) was known as The Noble Experiment. The results of the experiment are
clear: innocent people suffered; organized crime grew into an empire; the
police, courts, and politicians became corrupt; disrespect for the law grew; and
the per capita consumption of the prohibited substance — alcohol — increased
dramatically, year by year, for the next thirteen years of this Noble
Experiment, never to return to the pre-1920 levels.
You
would think that an experiment with such clear results would not need to be
repeated; but the experiment is being repeated; it's going on today. Only the
prohibited substances have changed. The results remain the same. They are
clearer now than
