"Tom S." wrote in message
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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Peter Gottlieb wrote:

It's almost better to just let it run its course and get so
horrifically
bad
faster, so it affects more of the public sooner, and some brave leader
stands up and asks why we are hurting ourselves like this.

That strategy didn't work very well for the "war on drugs" insanity.

Nor it's grandparent; prohibition.


But with the new police state mentality (matched by the new attitude in
business of the customer as enemy), aided by vastly improved tracking and
spying abilities, prohibition of "drugs," tobacco, and shortly to follow,
alcohol and guns, may just succeed. Of course, by then, it will be too
late.