"Gatt" wrote in message
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"the warlock society" wrote in message
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guilty until proven innocent; it's the american way!

This is sobering: http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php

According to "Law Enforcement Against Prohibition" the War on Some Drugs
has cost $44 billion dollars, put nearly 10,000 Americans in prison, and
drugs are cheaper and more accessible to kids and inmates now than alcohol
or cigarettes.

I would have guessed that those numbers were ANNUAL, not historic.

Somewhere in his writings, Thomas Jefferson scoffed at the notion of his day
that potatoes had odd side effect and should be banned. IIRC, he not only
was skeptical of the potato BS, but also about holding it to be illegal.