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  A Drug Test To Watch
Posted by FoM on July 29, 2001 at 07:14:44 PT
A Times Editorial 
Source: St. Petersburg Times 

medical The United States has exported its drug-war mentality to other nations through heavy-handed persuasion and intimidation, and every year we scrutinize our handiwork. An annual report issued by the State Department comments on the drug enforcement efforts of other countries.

In it, nations that don't follow the U.S. model of zero tolerance and are experimenting with alternatives to a punitive approach to the drug problem are lectured in a patronizing, we-know-better-than-you tone.

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Comment #2 posted by mayan on July 29, 2001 at 13:13:39 PT
BEWARE
The U.S. Government is losing it's grip on the global front,but you can bet they'll try to tighten it on it's own citizens.

Our government is in a serious case of denial.

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Comment #1 posted by lookinside on July 29, 2001 at 12:13:32 PT:

remember...
the heavy handed tactics of the u.s. guvmint during the viet
nam buildup of the late sixties and early seventies? the
campus riots that punctuated that period?...the ostracizing
of the soldiers that came home?(unjustly, but the
politicians and generals didn't spend alot of time on
college campuses in those days...the foot soldiers going
back to college were easy targets)

if other countries continue to ignore the U.S. guvmints
veiled threats, we might find ourselves invading canada,
holland, and other more enlightened countries...more likely,
we will become ostracized from the rest of the
world...sanity is breaking out beyond our borders...

someone quoted something like:

"nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

drug legalization is such an idea...

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