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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Who said you have the choose? Prosecutors seem to be OK with nailing drug users *and* dealers.
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They don't bother with users. Those get plead out for slaps on the wrist.
Unless it's acid or mushrooms, in which case you can wind up facing 10 years for minimal amounts. Good ole Uncle Sam. Really got his shit together. You can carry around tons of a brain-rotting drug like coke, but acid or shrooms - non-addictive drugs that do little more than cause you to act silly and have arguably revelatory experiences (YMMV) get you serious jail time.
The Drug War is atrocious. But so predictable in its aims.
Does it ever seem that we're governing ourselves toward being narrowminded, simple and obsessed with toiling for material? Step back and think about our values. We're really fucking nuts these days. Hard work is great, but we're just running away from our lives.
The Drug War seems to want to protect most the mindset that keeps us in that cycle. It's almost like they want us to have cocaine on some level. They just really don't want us getting off the merry-go-round, and thinking about the bigger picture.
