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Originally Posted by verklingen
good god some people are never happy about anything. did any of you ever in your wildest dreams consider that THE ACTING HEAD OF US DRUG CONTROL POLICY would ever say anything along lines such as these? small though the step is for practical purposes it's evel knievel leaping across the grand canyon in terms of what's gone on in our past. really now, some perspective is warranted. the guy's hardly been in office a week and he's already stirring the pot more than it's ever been stirred my entire life.
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Yes, in my not-so-wild dreams I believed (over ten years ago with the passage of The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 - Nineteen Ninety-SIX) that it would be over by now.
I thought I could go home to the 20 acres that was left me by my father (my grand-mother's dowry) and spend a comfortable retirement in the mountains of Alabama growing my own.
Instead I have been through more Hell than I ever dreamed anyone could suffer.
I do most assuredly know what these 'treatment' programs are all about, and they are as bad and worse than jail.
What struck me about the article is the following sentence:
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The average rank-and-file officer is saying, 'He can't control two blocks of Seattle, how is he going to control the nation?' " Mr. O'Neill said.
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That pretty much sums it up.
It's all about CONTROL.
Law enforcement loves drug prohibition, and particularly marijuana prohibition, because it allows them to act out their sadistic fantasies on pretty much anyone - and CONTROL pretty much the entire population while robbing, torturing, and jailing a large percentage of it.