Alexcabbie
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The DEA has a museum in Crystal City in Arlington VA where among other things they display a Colt 1911 with diamond-encrusted grips and a set of false choppers with diamond spangled uppers and gold-plated lowers which they confiscated from a rich dope dealer. The unmentioned irony is that it was the efforts of the DEA that made the dope so damned profitable to begin with.
It has long been my contention that if the drinking age were brought back down to 18 for wine and beer - where it belongs - and cannabis were legal, (leaf and bud for 18to 21, hashish for 21 and over); with appropriate taxes and limits on home production similar to beer and wine; then the narcs could concentrate on serious stuff such as heroin and coke. But even if these were legal, most people who don't use them now wouldn't use them then, and those who did take up smack or crack would in all likelihood alredy be riding a bottle to oblivion, so really no net loss. In fact there might be a net GAIN because the resources in this ridiculous "drug war" would be freed up for other uses.
And if all these dopey Hollywood celebrities who spout off like experts on issues of the gravest of importance and are listened to raptly by star-struck lawmakers could get their hands on any drug they wanted, when they wanted; then maybe they would DIE OFF BEFORE THEY MADE IT TO THE NEXT COMMITTEE HEARING, That's what I call "better living thru chemistry".
The DEA has a museum in Crystal City in Arlington VA where among other things they display a Colt 1911 with diamond-encrusted grips and a set of false choppers with diamond spangled uppers and gold-plated lowers which they confiscated from a rich dope dealer. The unmentioned irony is that it was the efforts of the DEA that made the dope so damned profitable to begin with.
It has long been my contention that if the drinking age were brought back down to 18 for wine and beer - where it belongs - and cannabis were legal, (leaf and bud for 18to 21, hashish for 21 and over); with appropriate taxes and limits on home production similar to beer and wine; then the narcs could concentrate on serious stuff such as heroin and coke. But even if these were legal, most people who don't use them now wouldn't use them then, and those who did take up smack or crack would in all likelihood alredy be riding a bottle to oblivion, so really no net loss. In fact there might be a net GAIN because the resources in this ridiculous "drug war" would be freed up for other uses.
And if all these dopey Hollywood celebrities who spout off like experts on issues of the gravest of importance and are listened to raptly by star-struck lawmakers could get their hands on any drug they wanted, when they wanted; then maybe they would DIE OFF BEFORE THEY MADE IT TO THE NEXT COMMITTEE HEARING, That's what I call "better living thru chemistry".
