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Sunday, July 11, 2010


I wonder if any of those heralding the success of the laughable modern drug war have any perspective to the last time the country tried such a failed policy.
Women campaigning for sobriety did not intend to give rise to the income tax, plea bargaining, a nationwide crime syndicate, Las Vegas, NASCAR (country boys outrunning government agents), a redefined role for the federal government and a privacy right -- the "right to be let alone" -- that eventually was extended to abortion rights. But they did.
So why are we still dealing with the "war on drugs" that, to this day, receives more federal money than NASA, yet any person in the country is no more than three phone calls from any illegal drugs they so desire? Because as with the tide in 1920, the Baptists and the Bootleggers still vote for the same guys.



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