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Originally Posted by Wildo7
http://www.alternet.org/story/93082/
How rachel died
The Killing of Rachel Hoffman and the Tragedy That Is Pot Prohibition
By Paul Armentano, AlterNet
Posted on July 29, 2008, Printed on July 29, 2008
Rachel Hoffman is dead. Rachel Hoffman, like many young adults, occasionally smoked marijuana.
But Rachel Hoffman is not dead as a result of smoking marijuana; she is dead as a result of marijuana prohibition.
Under prohibition, Rachel faced up to five years in a Florida prison for possessing a small amount of marijuana. (Under state law, violators face up to a $5,000 fine and five years in prison for possession of more than 20 grams of pot.)
Under prohibition, the police in Rachel's community viewed the 23-year-old recent college graduate as nothing more than a criminal and threatened her with jail time unless she cooperated with them as an untrained, unsupervised confidential informant. Her assignment: Meet with two men she'd never met and purchase a large quantity of cocaine, ecstasy and a handgun. Rachel rendezvoused with the two men; they shot and killed her.
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Dear Waldo,
I,a Far Right Wing Flaming Neo Con AGREE with you and I wouldn't just stop with Pot I would legalize all drugs, America loves it's drugs and America will get it's drugs, the minute the Government makes something Illegal there is a criminal starting to figure out a way to get that "something" and sell it to you in a back alley.
If drugs should be legalized that doesn't mean everybody in America is going to run out and get high, the people that buy the new legal drug will be the same people that are now buying the Illegal Drug but legalizing it will take the scumbag bastard drug dealers right out of the buisness, if the swaggering dirty dealer wearing the $300 sneakers wants to keep buying those sneakers he will have to go to work cleaning toilets.
Any type of drug that is Illegal now in this country you can walk down to your local school yard and buy in five minutes.
Just imagine the thousands of smelly bastard drug dealers that would be set on their a$s if we "Ended Prohibition"
There are quite a few Politicians, Lawyers, Cops, Judges and other Rotten scum in our government that also would get hit, that White Envelope passed under the table for the cover up would no longer exist.
AMERICA LOVES IT'S DRUGS AMERICA WILL ALWAYS GET IT'S DRUGS
When the carload of teenagers smashes into the Pine Tree at 3AM and the mangled bodies litter the highway it isn't the bag of pot or the needle that lies among them it is the "Little Brown Bottle" BOOZE.
I saw a wreck on the highway
But I didn't hear nobody pray
Whiskey and blood flowed together
But I didn't hear nobody pray