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Old 07-12-2010, 22:23   #58
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Re: Legalise "Illegal" Drugs?

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Originally Posted by steeljack View Post
Someone tell me again why British, US and other Nato troops are dying on a daily basis protecting the opium poppy fields in Afghanistan, production has risen over 500% since the occupation and most of the refined product ends up in the 'west' . Seems to me if our Govts. were serious about the 'drug problem' the poppy fields would have been napalmed and replanted to grow food .
If anyone thinks hard drugs are just a pleasant way of passing a few hours suggest you visit the city near to where I live (Oakland Ca.) and see how the effects of Cocaine/crack has devastated the place.
No oil at least not yet.But that's what the west is good at,the next thing you know some "historian" will be trying to tell us that slavery was abolished in 1833 when we all know it was alive and kicking in the 1950's and probably still is.
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