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    Originally posted by Mr.Hanky
    CHRIST, don't you friggin windbags ever get tired of listening to yourselves!!??


    How long does it take to say..."I think it should be legal"

    There wasn't that easy.
    Why use 6 words when over 3500 will do

    I reckon OracleDoc was smoking some when he came out with that lot
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    The REAL reason that "morality" won the day was because BIG BUSINESS was behind it. Hemp paper and hemp bio-fuels were being developed, and the timber & oil companies seized the moral argument to stamp out competition.

    BTW, I believe the drafts of the US Constitution were written on hemp paper before the final version was inscribed on vellum.

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    The REAL reason that "morality" won the day was because BIG BUSINESS was behind it


    Bingo!

    Follow the money.
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    I too remember when this place was coo.


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    I remember when this place was cool.

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    Originally posted by Mr.Hanky
    Hey Hanky, I know NPR isn't normally to your taste, but there was a really good interview with Tommy Chong on Fresh Air, much of it about his recent conviction for selling drug paraphanalia (sp?) -- no transcript as far as i can see, but an audio stream is available ("You mean we're smoking dog sh*t man?!"). (Edit: sorry, forgot the link http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4488902 )

    Oh, and if you can track down a transcript of Terry Gross' interview with Gene Simmons that's a real classic!
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    Up in Smoke has to be one of the greatest movies of all time.

    I still have my C&C vinyl, that was some funny stuff.
    I remember when this place was cool.

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    Originally posted by slimdave
    So what was the reason behind it? I don't see how legalize and tax could possibly be more expensive than the "war" on drugs. It even ought to be easier, when you consider the time and effort wasted all over the country on this.
    I'm not gonna upload a bunch of demand curve graphs now! Essentially, it has to do with demand elasticity (versus price).

    Here's the gist : You'd need an extremely high tax rate to cut qnty of drugs bought to the current prevailing level with a prohibition. Also, dealers and consumers will try to evade this mega tax. Penalties for tax evasion are not as severe as current drug prohibition laws..neither are they as effectively policed. You get the drift..

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    Originally posted by Axr2
    Here's the gist : You'd need an extremely high tax rate to cut qnty of drugs bought to the current prevailing level with a prohibition.
    That's assuming that the purpose of legalise-and-tax is to avoid an increase in the rate of usage, right? Bit of a sweeping assumption, that.
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    Originally posted by slimdave
    That's assuming that the purpose of legalise-and-tax is to avoid an increase in the rate of usage, right? Bit of a sweeping assumption, that.
    A fair assumption I would imagine.

    If c0ke were legal and cheap, demand would spike. I'm sure parents wouldn't be thrilled at the prospect of their 12yr old smoking c0ke at school.

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    Originally posted by Axr2
    A fair assumption I would imagine.

    If c0ke were legal and cheap, demand would spike. I'm sure parents wouldn't be thrilled at the prospect of their 12yr old smoking c0ke at school.
    Obviously they wouldn't be -- but do you reckon that it'd be easier for kids to get hold of drugs when it's legalised than it currently is, though? I'd not be too sure. I don't think it's very difficult right now.
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