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	<title>Comments on: Time to end prohibition?</title>
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		<title>By: dagonweb</title>
		<link>http://futurismic.com/2008/12/04/time-to-end-prohibition/comment-page-1/#comment-17202</link>
		<dc:creator>dagonweb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bull, SMD. You legalize a product, put in place taxes, checks for product safety, new laws and sales licenses as well as lows on where to use and and when not. Then let the market sort it out. You can do this with cannabis, easy. 

Current harder narcotics can be brough under far greater control too, if you implement fenced free-zones where people can use. Cocain and heroin would be acceptable to banish to &quot;restricted zones&quot;. Disallow use for anyone with a responsible job - conduct regular blood tests. Then tax the stuff, and import it from abroad in american run licince pharmaceutical farms. Push out the illegal element.

The only downturn is that a HUGE NUMBER of very hard career criminals will be looking for other employment, and that WILL cause major upheaval for years. Imagine all drug traders fighting to sustain the same inflated income levels - the same amounts now running like rivers into tax coffers? Police no longer busy with wasteful drug enforcement can now focus their attention of real crimes?

The arguments are so clear they&#039;ve become as invisible as air.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bull, SMD. You legalize a product, put in place taxes, checks for product safety, new laws and sales licenses as well as lows on where to use and and when not. Then let the market sort it out. You can do this with cannabis, easy. </p>
<p>Current harder narcotics can be brough under far greater control too, if you implement fenced free-zones where people can use. Cocain and heroin would be acceptable to banish to &#8220;restricted zones&#8221;. Disallow use for anyone with a responsible job &#8211; conduct regular blood tests. Then tax the stuff, and import it from abroad in american run licince pharmaceutical farms. Push out the illegal element.</p>
<p>The only downturn is that a HUGE NUMBER of very hard career criminals will be looking for other employment, and that WILL cause major upheaval for years. Imagine all drug traders fighting to sustain the same inflated income levels &#8211; the same amounts now running like rivers into tax coffers? Police no longer busy with wasteful drug enforcement can now focus their attention of real crimes?</p>
<p>The arguments are so clear they&#8217;ve become as invisible as air.</p>
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		<title>By: Sterling Camden</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sterling Camden</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve been saying this since I was a teenager.  I no longer use, but I still think that government involvement has only made everything about drugs ten times worse than it needs to be.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been saying this since I was a teenager.  I no longer use, but I still think that government involvement has only made everything about drugs ten times worse than it needs to be.</p>
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		<title>By: Paul Raven</title>
		<link>http://futurismic.com/2008/12/04/time-to-end-prohibition/comment-page-1/#comment-17168</link>
		<dc:creator>Paul Raven</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m inclined to agree with you, SMD. I suspect their response would be &quot;yes, but it would still be cheaper than carrying on as we are&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m inclined to agree with you, SMD. I suspect their response would be &#8220;yes, but it would still be cheaper than carrying on as we are&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: SMD</title>
		<link>http://futurismic.com/2008/12/04/time-to-end-prohibition/comment-page-1/#comment-17167</link>
		<dc:creator>SMD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the whole situation is a lot more complex than they would like us to think.  You can&#039;t just go &quot;oh, well it&#039;s all legal&quot; and magically expect to be able to tax it.  It&#039;s not going to work that way considering how prohibition has been going the last 40 years.  Illegal drug selling is so entrenched in its underground ways, that uprooting it into the legal sphere is not going to be like baking a cake.  It&#039;ll take time and money not only to get people to buy legally, but to get people to trust the government to act responsibly on it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the whole situation is a lot more complex than they would like us to think.  You can&#8217;t just go &#8220;oh, well it&#8217;s all legal&#8221; and magically expect to be able to tax it.  It&#8217;s not going to work that way considering how prohibition has been going the last 40 years.  Illegal drug selling is so entrenched in its underground ways, that uprooting it into the legal sphere is not going to be like baking a cake.  It&#8217;ll take time and money not only to get people to buy legally, but to get people to trust the government to act responsibly on it.</p>
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