Rob,
Ron Getty posted these persuasive arguments (see below) on our Libertarian Party of San Francisco's (LPSF) Email List.
Perhaps you can offer a more hopeful perspective. Thanks
Best, Michael
All those arguments were brought up in the 1920's, to
explain why alcohol prohibition would never be
repealed.
--- dredelstein@threeminutetherapy.com wrote:
> Rob,
>
> Ron Getty posted these persuasive arguments (see
> below) on our Libertarian Party of San Francisco's
> (LPSF) Email List.
>
> Perhaps you can offer a more hopeful perspective.
> Thanks
>
> Best, Michael
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ron Getty
> To: Libertarian Yahoo Group ; LPSF-ACTIVISTS
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:16 PM
> Subject: [lpsf-activists] Why Pot WIll Not Be
> Legalized!!!
>
>
> Dear Everyone;
>
> We have had various discussion at one time or
> another about legalizing pot and repealing the war
> on drugs and today stopping the DEA from raiding a
> medical pot store and getting stuck with a pot store
> as a next door neighbor.
>
> All discussions about legalizing pot and repealing
> the war on drugs are fruitless.
>
> WHY?
>
> Think about these impediments to legalization or
> repeal:
>
> 1. Finding new jobs for the cops who fight the drug
> wars.
>
> 2. Finding new jobs for all those 22,000 (!) DEA
> government employees.
>
> 3. Finding new jobs for the prison guards
>
> 4. Finding new jobs for all those prison
> administrators.
>
> 5. Finding new jobs for all other prison employees.
>
> 6.. Finding new jobs for the attorneys who
> prosecute.
>
> 7. Finding new jobs for the attorneys who defend.
>
> 8. Finding new jobs for the judges who hear those
> trials.
>
> 8. Finding a new source of prisoners for all those
> empty prisons.
>
> 10. Finding a new type of construction work for all
> those prison construction firms.
>
> 11.Convincing the liquor lobby legalized pot/drug
> stores won't put liquor stores out of business.
>
> 12.Finding politicians who are willling to see their
> political careers come to a stop.
>
> 13. City - county - state - federal governments
> finding new sources of revenue other than seized
> goods which were taken because they were bought with
> drug money.
>
> 14. Finding new things for all those drug sniffing
> dogs to sniff. ( poor doggies)
>
> 15. Finding new uses for the military forces used to
> interdict drugs internationally.
>
> 16. Finding new jobs for drug kingpins and their
> gangs and distributors.
>
> 17. Finding enough money to overcome the massive
> amounts of funds the above people will contribute to
> stop legalization
>
> Ron Getty
> SF Libertarian
>
>
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