Mexican Clave, anyone?

"Jonathan Cook" wrote in message
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Conan The Librarian wrote:

You're not familiar with the phrase "War on Drugs"?

Familiarity implies knowing what it means? That's another
assumption. And I'm still not responsible for those ;-)

Would I rather read of another meth lab bust down here than
read that the problem is being ignored? You bet. Would I
rather be inconvenienced by having to ask for Sudafed at a
pharmacy counter than having it available in bulk to meth
producers? You bet. I can't watch Frontline on PBS and conclude
that society would benefit by allowing people a free choice
to legally make and use meth if they want to.

I know that it shouldn't, but it still does amaze me that so many people are
unaware that the folks at Anheuser Bush, R.J. Reynolds, Folgers, etc.
proudly (and with complete impunity) put their corporate names not only on
their products but also on the facilities at which they manufacture/process
them. Meth labs as we know them exist not DESPITE the "war on drugs", but
BECAUSE OF it.

I use "War on (Some) Drugs" to more accurately describe what it is.
Alcohol, tobacco, other chemicals aren't included even though their
effects are at least as bad as some of the ones that are currently
illegal.

I suspected that's what you meant by "some" but I still don't
know what all is meant by a "war" on drugs.

This, on the other hand, is no surprise at all.

Do we shoot on sight
any drug we come across? (Yes I'm being ridiculous but the
phrase under question is so broad I find it impossible to declare
that I support it or don't support it.)

Your declarations are your own problem (or, to be more precise, one of them)
but you should definitely support the immediate legalization of whatever
anybody wants to ingest. You should NOT support a criminal class that was
created by the ban of one drug eighty-some years ago and bolstered by the
subsequent monopolies given to them in the ensuing decades. Nor should you
support the largest prison system in the world, built primarily to house
people criminalized by insane policies.

I am in favor of keeping illegal drugs illegal.

That's because you don't think much.

And I am in favor of stopping throwing money at a failed program
that is doomed by its very nature.

I don't see how our two statements are opposed to each other.
I'm all for abandoning expensive, ineffective programs...

Bull****.

Wolfgang