"Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
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 EH> That's usually where they put section 8 apartments -- in old motels.

 RS>>>> Have you ever had your home broken into?

 EH>>> I've had three different cars broke into.

 RS>> And you didn't mind each time?

 EH> Of course I minded! It cost me good money each time!

Yes, and your property was damaged and/or stolen.

 RS>>>> Been mugged?

 EH>>> That has nothing to do with your little story here.

 RS>> It has everything to do with it.

 EH> Not in the least.

Have you ever been mugged?

 RS>> Pask mugged me.

 EH> So you claim. You have no credibility here in FIDO for a reason.

Why would I make up a story about being mugged?
Obvious answer: I didn't. I was, just as your cars were broken into.
Unless they weren't... (Using your own M. O.)

 RS>>>>>> Smoking pot in and of itself, is not dangerous.
 RS>>>>>> Pot that has PCP in it is.

 EH>>>>> Or wet.

 RS>>>> Huh?

 EH>>> Smoking "wet" is smoking pot that has been
"enhanced" with
 EH>>> formaldehyde. Apparently they soak the pot in the stuff before
 EH>   drying EH>> it out. A friend of mine befriended a homeless person
 EH>   who had later EH>> been found out to have been smoking
"wet." It
 EH>   made the guy act really EH>> strange.

 RS>> Formaldehyde? Yeesh! Talk about playing Russian roulette with
 EH>   his RS> brains.

 EH> He's not alone, I heard it mentioned on COPS before as well. To many
 EH> who use drugs pot isn't sufficient after using it for a while. They
 EH> have to enhance it with something else such as PCP, Formaldehyde, etc.

Major-level stupidity.

 EH> The argument that pot isn't an entry-level drug ignores the fact that
 EH> it introduces people to the drug culture where many will experiment
 EH> with other drugs to get a better "high." Not all pot
smokers will go
 EH> onto harder drugs, but it gets smokers into a culture where other
 EH> drugs are available. Plus many unscrupulous pot dealers will sell
 EH> "wet" or PCP laced pot and claim it is just better pot.

There are many, MANY "gateway" drugs.
Should we ban alcohol? Spray paint? Cough medicine? Caffeine?

It's not the substance. It's the person misusing it.

 RS>>>>>> Yet the DEA refuses to even *LOOK* at changing
US drug laws,
 EH>>>   to EH>>   put more RS> emphasis on dope that actually is
 EH>   dangerous, EH>>   like meth.

 EH>>>>> The DEA has no authority to change laws. All they can do is
 EH>>>   enforce EH>> the laws that are on the books.

 EH>>>>> One other thing, your claim that the DEA pays less attention
 EH>   to EH>>   meth EH>> manufacturers and users than pot
smokers isn't
 EH>   supported EH>>   by the facts.

 RS>>>> No, congress has the authority to changge the laws.

 EH>>> You said the DEA did just above.

 RS>> The DEA could ask. They won't.

 EH> How do you know?

 RS>> They, and local law enforcement, likes all the $$$ they get from
 EH>   the RS> government and from seized property.

 EH> They don't seize property in a pot case unless it involves a very
 EH> large amount of pot.

Look it up.

Neil Boortz, the *CONSERVATIVE* talk radio host has lots of information
on drug seizure abuse.

 RS>>>> But any politician who seriously challenges our drug laws gets
 EH>>>   branded RS> "Soft on drugs" and can easily
lose re-election.

 EH>>> Only if they advocate decriminalization of drugs. Is that what
 EH>   you EH>> want?

 RS>> With pot, yes.

 EH> Why? What will that do?

 RS>> The price of pot would drop like a rock, drying up one source of
 EH>   income RS> for those Mexican gangs.

 EH> Sure it would.

Why wouldn't it?

 RS>> Altered pot has gone out of favor, among stoners.

 EH> How do you know?

Read the news.

 RS>> Too many who liked altered pot ended up dead.

 EH> It still sells.

Nowhere near as much.

 RS>> Do we criminalize booze any longer?

 EH> That was only tried for a short time.

 RS>> No, we tax the shit out of it.

 EH> We do? When fortified wine sells for $2 to $3 a bottle, that isn't
 EH> taxing the (bleep) out of it.

 RS>> Do we criminalize tobacco?

 EH> Tobacco isn't a mind altering drug.

Nicotine is a mind-altering drug.

Or are you going to deny it's addictive, also?

 RS>> No, we tax the shit out of it.

 RS>> Think about it.

 EH> Okay, I thought about it.

Not very hard, as usual.

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