War on Drugs a Pointless Disaster (Mar 09)

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	War on Drugs a Pointless Disaster (Mar 09)

TripodGirl

5-19-2009 5:36 PM

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illicit drugs, prohibition

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5-23-2009 4:11 PM

Moliticon

It is soooo popular with our fascist government though. Why would you want to interfere with that? Besides, you just know all those black people were doing other bad things anyway or they were surely thinking about it at a minimum.

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