The raw (and ugly) truth about the war on drugs

[locomark]

Thanks Fishman,

Saved that one to my desktop.

Loco

[Markass]

Back to cigarettes for a moment..consider this: Cigarette being a primary contributor to lung cancer, various other types of cancer, diseases, or anything else negative coming from tobacco use. Now, let's think of how many doctors, specialists, technicians, or anything else of that sort that get paid JUST because of victims of effects of tobacco, and the amount that they get paid. Then let's think about the costs of various medication, radiation, and chemotherapy treatments...funeral costs, and let alone the sales from tobacco itself...they make way too much money when you look at the broad picture...

Okay, now let's try and think of something similar to that of tobacco coming from marijuana...oh wait, it doesn't cause cancer, other diseases, or mortality...so what extra costs can be accumulated? none of those amounting to that of tobacco, that's for damn sure.

our government is so fking corrupt and money hungry it's not even funny..

[stickyinsalem]

i dont care about personally what people want to compare to pot....its not true....i work 70 hours a week. come home and smoke a joint...and go to sleep...without it...i stay awake all night....read some magazines about the effects about pot and HIV and sleep and everything else pot is getting treated with....and i dont really care if i would be a zombie....AT LEAST I AM LIVING MY LIFE THE WAY I DAMN WELL CHOOSE TO LIVE IT.....WE LIVE WE DIE AND WE PAY TAXES FOR THE US GOVERNMENT TO WALK ON US....GET A LIFE CUZ YOU ARENT FUCKING UP MINE

[DebuteMachine23]

Yup. This is why I don't trust our current Gov't

[anangrymailman]

Nice post. What we need is another Enlightenment.

On an unrelated note, that gullibility factor test isn't all that great:

"Inflation is a natural side effect of a healthy, growing economy.
FALSE. Monetary inflation, which saps the buying power of your dollars, is intentionally caused by the expansion of the money supply which is, in turn, controlled by the Federal Reserve. The net effect is a hidden tax on Americans' income and savings (a tax most people never notice). In an honest economy, the money supply would remain constant, and the annual inflation rate would be zero. Inflation is not natural, it's a manipulation that acts as hidden taxation."

I think they need to take some econ classes.

"When you deposit money in a savings account at a bank, that bank holds your money for you until you ask for it back.
FALSE. Banks do not hold your money, they use your money as a reserve and then lend out ten times as much money to other customers. The entire U.S. banking system is a fractional reserve system, meaning only a fraction of your money is held in reserve. Banks are counting on the fact that only a small percentage of their customers will ever ask for their reserves on any given day. Most of the time, that assumption is entirely true, but when national currencies run into trouble and people demand their savings, this fractional reserve system magnifies both the single-bank risk and the systemic effect of bank runs."

Duh.. Is this a bad thing though? You wouldn't be too sharp if you thought banks payed interest just for holding on to your money.