I have been looking for a long time and found this post. Thanks a lot….

I find is so two faced of our government to spend so much on valuable resources in this war on drugs, and at the same time taking parents to court when they don\’t want their child to undergo toxic chemical treatments. A couple of examples are, vaccinations which can contain formaldehype and mercury, or chemotherapy for cancers where the survival rates are not good.

Our government, particulary under Bush, lowered standard for many polutants, so our water and air are much less safe. The whole carbon credit transfer is a joke — it is allowing for more pollution. Do you know the cosmetic and skin care industries have to only have 49% or less of negative reactions to label a product “non-toxic”?

My point of all of this is that our government is spending a lot of time and money on the war of drugs, when those resources could be allocated to improve and clean up our world for us and our kids and grandkids.

Yes, it is a choice. I have used when I was younger, but now choose to abstain.

The Government cannot be in the business of controling our lives. They, according to the Constitution, only have the power to protect us from foreign threats. NOT to protect us from ourselves. We do not need nor do we want a \\"Nanny State\\".

There are several opponents to the removal of this prohibition:
1. The Government they use this prohibition;
a. To fund various agencies.
b. As a distraction to keep the public off-balance.
c. Also as a rally cry during elections
2. The Pharmacutical Companies;
a. If all drugs are legalized, the lose their grip in medicine.
b. If people learn of the benefits of these drugs, they lose money.
c. They lose control.
3. The Chemical Companies;
a. The byproducts of some of these drugs are valuable resources.
b. They are quickly renewable.
c. They lose money and control.
4. The Drug Cartels;
a. They would be neutered and as such greatly reduced!

The Government needs to get out of the the business of running our lives and get back to the business of protecting us from those that wish to do us harm as a people as a whole.

As a side note; Uncle sam, you truly need to unravel yourself from the hype of the media and understand that Republicans aren\\\’t the problem. The problem lies with the Government as a whole.

From an old bumper sticker:
Under the Republicans – Man Exploits Man
Under the Democrats – It\\\’s just the opposite

Not sure about seeing through the scam, but here in NY, the Rockerfeller
drug laws are being rolled back – probably because NY(like so many other
govts these days) is broke, and facing huge budget deficits, and not for any logical or compassionate reasons – they noted NY would save $250 mil
a year by doing so.

So perhaps this is one of the few good things about the current deep and likely long recession: the Beast that is the Govt’s War on(some) Drug(-users) is being starved for funds, and in the process being strangled much like a huge malignant tumor who’s blood supply is being cut off.

Perhaps when the lights go dim in our States’ and Nation’s capitols for lack of govt’ funds to pay the electric bill, then maybe, just maybe, a
complete and total de-funding of drug prohibition at all levels will finally be made fiscally necessary.

You have to keep in mind that no one who is currently profiting or other wise benefitting from Prohibition II, wants it to end – and this goes for
BOTH sides, so as long as there remains so much at stake for all concerned in keeping this now multigenerational scam going, they’re not going to end it for moral or logical reasons anytime soon. Presently, I think our best hope for ending (or at least, de-fanging the Drug War), is
one of the few Silver Linings in the dark cloud of a Depression, and that is our drug warriors’ running out of gas, and (hopefully) seeing their paychecks start to bounce as gov’t coffers at every level start to dry up.

Sadly, I think that’s our best hope for ending drug prohibition in our lifetime. When you consider that neither John McCain or Barak Obama campaigned on the issue of ending the drug war, but between the two of them them they got something like 90% of the vote, I’n afraid those of us who want and end to the drug war can’t look to our fellow Americans for relief.

It’s always ALL ABOUT THE CORPORATE PROFITS.

A recent study in Geneva Switzerland has revealed that the physical traits of being born with your eyes slightly crossed or too close together is a sign of mental instability. The brain in most of the cases studied had the tendency to enlarge the frontal lobe causing the eyes to misalign. “This is fairly normal, by the age of two or three the eyes reset with the continuation of early growth.” A scientist for the Geneva Foundation of Childhood Development stated.

This abnormal growth pattern is not new, but when this trait is joined with a slowness of thought, limited brain stimulation and outdated life theories the problem becomes larger.
These conditions have been found in human’s studies to be mainly focused within the Republican thought patterns. Severe retardation in some cases has been the cause of what economic advisors call the “Ineffectual Redundancy Syndrome” or IRS for short.
This disease is now being blamed for the recent shift in public opinion on the correct way for a democracy to run. (for proof just look at Rush)

It seems that the only way to stop this trait from developing into a full blown mental unbalance is to for once and forever to disband the Republican Party. The way this group thinks is the very source of mental retardation, only though the elimination of this political party will our children be safe. Although this theory has caused some reactions from the Republicans, science has proven that it is correct. If the current administration doesn’t enact laws to stop this spread of mental anguish they are then endorsing the current problems of the world.

Robert Synecki has been studying this problem first hand in Washington D.C. and has concluded that the problem is almost too big to believe. “This mental retardation is the biggest issue facing the congress and senate today.” He states, “Most of the government waste in spending is due to the inability of the Republicans to even basically understand the differences between the real Americans and those illusions of what Americans need.

In a different study based in the corn belt of America, the Center of Democratic Efficiency has found that over the last eight years this problem has gone unchecked, causing billions of tax dollars to be wasted on stupid programs which don’t work. They have created Bill 123456 which if enacted could make being a Republican illegal. They are calling it the War on blank; they will fill in the blank after spending billions of tax dollars trying to solve this problem. The real winners will be the American people who tried to contact the White House earlier with the question, “Even though millions of American are users of a certain strain of thought, shouldn’t the government care about fraud, lies and corruption?” The president laughed at the question and said, “I don’t know what this says about those people online, but no we will not kick the Republicans out of America.”

Of course this kind of thinking, this kind of rejection of sound practices is what the new president said he would look into, but politics as normal seems to have returned to our country. Some Washington outsiders have tried to make the connection to this disease and the President, by stating that if he truly believed in God, he would understand that all things, even what we call bad, are a gift if we choose to view it that way, but that people who are stupid shouldn’t be able to draft laws about what other Americans think is norml.

Tasteless and oderless… you mean cyanide, right? This point probably converges with other “safety” issues like a chemist with a lab in the basement of his house, or a physicist with a delorian in his garage! Anyway drugging others without their consent is a violation of law regardless of the substance used. Intent might differentiate between tort and criminal action.

Obviously some harder drugs should be regulated… and ultimatly a doctor (or psycic) should help with making an informed decision.

No, other than a few Kool-aid drug warriors out there, one can only conclude that the drug war is being waged as a power grab for politicians and as a make-work program for prison guards (whose union funds political campaigns) and the prison construction industry.

In other words, it’s a racket. The fact that lives are ruined and our rights are trampled means nothing to Obama, Clinton and gang. They are one sick bunch.

Most people still don\’t realize that legalization will end the violence – they still seem to think it will increase it, and \"cause\" people to take drugs.

I wonder how much more violence and CNN propaganda on this (AC 360 on Thursday) it will take before people decide to change.

this is something that easily-obtainable semi-automatic “assault weapons” do not do, but the category is thusly named in an attempt to blur the difference, and to include both, simply because they are often cosmetically similar, occasionally cosmetically identical.