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On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:28:54 -0700 (PDT), Walt In Seattle <walter.clay.scott@gmail.com> wrote:

Jeff Sessions, if he manages to remain U.S. Attorney General, shows signs he may be willing to take on states that have allowed people to legally possess/use pot

Yea ... the 'drug war' mentality is still alive and well,
despite overwhelming evidence that it causes far
more harm in far more ways than what it intends
to control.

The latest major face-plant is, of course, the Great
War On Opioids. Used to be opiate-lovers could go
to the pharmacy and get good clean quality stuff ...
but when the War On Opioids started a few years
ago the puritans celebrated their self-righteousness
by cutting off most of that supply. So .. everybody
was gonna become a good little Xian soldier hmm ?
Nope, they turned left at the light and met up with
the friendly neighborhood heroin dealers instead ...
now the complaints about a few ODs a week has
become a bucketfull of ODs per day.

But nobody wants to notice that ...

IMHO, puritans aside, the WOD isn't very much
about drugs per-se. It's about all the MONEY that
surrounds them. There's kickbacks, but there's
also a vast amount spend on every aspect of
the "war" - a river everybody gets to dip into.

So, I do NOT expect the federals to stop or even
meaningfully reduce their 'war' - and there's gonna
be even more money floating around if they have
to go into certain states and try to stamp out the
pot trade.

Clinton didn't stop the 'war', "W" didn't stop the 'war',
Obama escalated the 'war' and now Trump is gonna
escalate it even further. BIG money in psychic
micromanagement it seems. It just feels so RIGHT,
in a nation built by so many ejected puritan types ....

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On 07/27/2017 06:51 PM, Mr. B1ack wrote:

On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:28:54 -0700 (PDT), Walt In Seattle <walter.clay.scott@gmail.com> wrote:

Jeff Sessions, if he manages to remain U.S. Attorney General, shows signs he may be willing to take on states that have allowed people to legally possess/use pot

Jeff Sessions wants to return to the thrilling days of yesteryear when everyone knew their places, women were in the
kitchen never in a pulpit or seen without husbands, black people
kowtowed and were never mentioned in a positive light unless they
were Broadway entertainers, Gay people were invisible and
Transgenders were unheard of.

Au Bas Sessions!

bliss

Yea ... the 'drug war' mentality is still alive and well,
despite overwhelming evidence that it causes far
more harm in far more ways than what it intends
to control.

The latest major face-plant is, of course, the Great
War On Opioids. Used to be opiate-lovers could go
to the pharmacy and get good clean quality stuff ...
but when the War On Opioids started a few years
ago the puritans celebrated their self-righteousness
by cutting off most of that supply. So .. everybody
was gonna become a good little Xian soldier hmm ?
Nope, they turned left at the light and met up with
the friendly neighborhood heroin dealers instead ...
now the complaints about a few ODs a week has
become a bucketfull of ODs per day.

But nobody wants to notice that ...

IMHO, puritans aside, the WOD isn't very much
about drugs per-se. It's about all the MONEY that
surrounds them. There's kickbacks, but there's
also a vast amount spend on every aspect of
the "war" - a river everybody gets to dip into.

So, I do NOT expect the federals to stop or even
meaningfully reduce their 'war' - and there's gonna
be even more money floating around if they have
to go into certain states and try to stamp out the
pot trade.

Clinton didn't stop the 'war', "W" didn't stop the 'war',
Obama escalated the 'war' and now Trump is gonna
escalate it even further. BIG money in psychic
micromanagement it seems. It just feels so RIGHT,
in a nation built by so many ejected puritan types ....

--
bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com

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On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:51:52 -0400, Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net>
wrote:

On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:28:54 -0700 (PDT), Walt In Seattle ><walter.clay.scott@gmail.com> wrote:

Jeff Sessions, if he manages to remain U.S. Attorney General, shows signs he may be willing to take on states that have allowed people to legally possess/use pot

Yea ... the 'drug war' mentality is still alive and well,
despite overwhelming evidence that it causes far
more harm in far more ways than what it intends
to control.

The latest major face-plant is, of course, the Great
War On Opioids. Used to be opiate-lovers could go
to the pharmacy and get good clean quality stuff ...
but when the War On Opioids started a few years
ago the puritans celebrated their self-righteousness
by cutting off most of that supply. So .. everybody
was gonna become a good little Xian soldier hmm ?
Nope, they turned left at the light and met up with
the friendly neighborhood heroin dealers instead ...
now the complaints about a few ODs a week has
become a bucketfull of ODs per day.

But nobody wants to notice that ...

IMHO, puritans aside, the WOD isn't very much
about drugs per-se. It's about all the MONEY that
surrounds them. There's kickbacks, but there's
also a vast amount spend on every aspect of
the "war" - a river everybody gets to dip into.

It's also about oppressing and eliminating the poor and non white.
Both groups have high drug use rates.

So, I do NOT expect the federals to stop or even
meaningfully reduce their 'war' - and there's gonna
be even more money floating around if they have
to go into certain states and try to stamp out the
pot trade.

Clinton didn't stop the 'war', "W" didn't stop the 'war',
Obama escalated the 'war' and now Trump is gonna
escalate it even further. BIG money in psychic
micromanagement it seems. It just feels so RIGHT,
in a nation built by so many ejected puritan types ....

Swill
--
President Eisenhower, April 16th, 1953:

"Every gun that’s made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired represents, in the final sense,
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."

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