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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

Don't these people understand that if they want to
eliminate something they should make it legal and let
the bureaucracy regulate it to death...LOL.... But I
really think that the use might go down, especially
with the coca & opium.
One thing that really concerns me is the recent
supreme court decision that said that marijuana grown
and consumed only within, I believe it was California,
could still be regulated by the DEA.  Not only do I
not understand the opposition to medical marijuana,
but I see this as a direct violation of the
constitution since this is not INTRAstate commerce.
Van Dell


--- Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> This is way too much fun to not post in its
> entirety. From: http:// 
> time.blogs.com/daily_dish/
> 
> 
> Pot bigger than corn...
> 
> 18 Dec 2006 10:33 am
> 
> [Alex]
> 
> It's long been a staple of the marijuana
> legalisation crowd that  
> cannabis is America's biggest cash crop.
> Conveniently a new report -  
> produced by a pro-legalisation analyst - assures us
> that it is  
> iondeed the case and that the value of US-produced
> pot is somewhere  
> north of $35bn - making cannabis more valuable than
> corn.
> 
> No surprise here:
> 
> The report estimates that marijuana production has
> increased tenfold  
> in the past quarter century despite an exhaustive
> anti-drug effort by  
> law enforcement.
> 
> Nor, sadly, here:
> 
> Tom Riley, a spokesman for the White House Office of
> National Drug  
> Control Policy, cited examples of foreign countries
> that have  
> struggled with big crops used to produce cocaine and
> heroin. "Coca is  
> Colombia's largest cash crop and that hasn't worked
> out for them, and  
> opium poppies are Afghanistan's largest crop, and
> that has worked out  
> disastrously for them," Riley said. "I don't know
> why we would  
> venture down that road."
> 
> Good grief. Where to begin? How hard can it be to
> understand that  
> it's the illegality of coca and poppy production
> that is primarily  
> responsible for fostering banditry in Colombia and
> Afghanistan  
> respectively?
> 
> I'm entirely persuaded by the philosophical appeal
> of the libertarian  
> argument on drug policy, but this battle will only
> be won on  
> practical rather than philosophical or even moral
> grounds. Alas, the  
> war on the war on drugs shows few signs of being any
> more successful  
> than the war on drugs itself.
> 
> -------------------
> 
> So there you have it, homesteaders, the ultimate
> cash crop continues  
> to energize. Ah, the inconvenience of the law. But,
> hey, when it is  
> deemed legal, the price will crash. Hm, dare we
> speculate on possible  
> collusion between bureaucrats and producers? Dare we
> speculate on how  
> many bureaucrats are users? Ah, they probably don't
> inhale. Right?
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