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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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And to think it has only taken us four decades of activism to get this far!
Why is it that a 1,000-page law can be enacted within weeks, but to get a law repealed is practically impossible? |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
Why is it that a 1,000-page law can be enacted within weeks, but to get a law repealed is practically impossible? |
Wars, even domestic ones, are like marriage. Easy to get in, hard to get out. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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Monday�s memorandum by the Obama administration that the federal government will cease wasting law enforcement, prosecutorial (and correspondingly court) budgets on arresting and raiding medical marijuana dispensaries and patients came as the next logical step in what has primarily been a textbook organizing campaign from below.
The history is instructive on how small steps lead to big change, and is worth study by all who clamor for progress on many fronts: from bringing about national health care to ending the US embargo of Cuba to immigration reform to overhauling an entire economic system, to each and every �issue� one might advocate.
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The debates today over health care and other matters seamlessly echo those that took place among drug policy reform advocates in the mid-90s. Those who embarked on a strategy of incremental change were often vilified by natural allies who said that such a step-by-step path did not move fast or far enough. In some cases, entire organizations were shattered and splinter groups formed in their place, competing for the same supporters and funding. We all know how that story goes. Friendships in that milieu of drug policy reform, too, were lost in the divisions, egos and hard feelings. There have always been, and perhaps always will be, those who argue that by urging incremental change a movement abandons its core principles. But in the end, history moves one step at a time, and more often than not it is those who walk rather than sprint that emerge triumphant. |
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soakitincider
Joined: 19 Oct 2009
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Get em' stoned. That makes "it" easier.  I've often said "make it all legal". Give all the junkies a bucket full of heroin, crack, meth, whatever. The herd will thin itself. Drug cartels? Gone. Jails full of non-violent people? Gone. Tax it though. Out the wazoo! Tax base? Burgeoning. National dedicit? Gone. Why do you think pot is still illegal? Over 30 million, or more, Americans use it. How much goes the gub' make off smokers? C'mon. I don't use it. But if it was legal? Hmmm. I read, and this does NOT make it fact, that the 2 fastest growing industries in the U.S. are casinos and PRIVATE (for profit for those of you who don't know) prisons. What do you make of that? If it's true, watch out. My brother is an ironworker who has helped build several prisons. Guards have told him the VAST number of inmates are there for pot, alcohol, and child support issues. Huh? Murderers walk, meth heads go to jail. Again, put your opinions aside, see the big picture, and ask yourself "What the hell is going on?" C'mon guys, think!!! |
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