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The Patriots Guide to Marijuana Legalization

source: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/07/patriots-guide-legalization

WHEN WE THINK of the drug war, it's the heavy-duty narcotics like heroin and cocaine that get most of the attention. And why not? That's where the action is. It's not marijuana that is sustaining the Taliban in Afghanistan, after all. When Crips and Bloods descend into gun battles in the streets of Los Angeles, they're not usually fighting over pot. The junkie who breaks into your house and steals your Blu-ray player isn't doing it so he can score a couple of spliffs.

No, the marijuana trade is more genteel than that. At least, I used to think it was. Then, like a lot of people, I started reading about the open warfare that has erupted among the narcotraffickers in Mexico and is now spilling across the American border. Stories of drugs coming north and arsenals of guns going south. Thousands of people brutally murdered. Entire towns terrorized. And this was a war not just over cocaine and meth, but marijuana as well.
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    • IT'S A WAR OVER MONEY ALREADY !!! Whenever ANY commodity is made illegal, for whatever reason, I guarantee you its price will be 100 times more than when it was not rendered to be contraband sold on the black market. Do you seriously think the ivory poachers don't kill for money too ? Because if you hold to a double standard, and can't see an elephant's life, as a mammal, has equal rights as a human has, you engage in a form of species Discrimination that makes your position hypocritical and your interest conflicted. Humans are not superior
      simply because we've excluded ourselves from the food chain and become predators. Humans simply prey on each other over money now, using guns to intimidate and kill. As Mao Tse Tung said: "Power flows from the barrel of a gun" My point is if a person can't be humane toward animals, then they can't be humane toward other humans either. We didn't stop being animals simply because we learned to speak.

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