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NOTE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
In order to allow our staff to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday, we will
be taking a one week hiatus for the DrugSense Weekly Newsletter for
the issue scheduled November 24, 2000. An issue combining the most
relevant drug policy news during both weeks will be forwarded to our
subscribers on December 1, 2000. We at DrugSense wish you all a happy
holiday season. | ||||||||||||||||
FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
Marijuana Initiatives Pass in 5 of 7 States | ||||||||||||||||
by Glen Schwarz | ||||||||||||||||
Two medical marijuana initiatives, two asset forfeiture reforms and a
treatment over jail time proposal were all passed by voters in five
Western states. Going down to defeat this round were a combined
forfeiture and treatment proposal in Massachusetts, along with a full
legalization bill in Alaska. | ||||||||||||||||
Continuing the unbroken streak of successful medical marijuana
initiatives, voters in Colorado and Nevada passed legislation by 54 and
67 percent respectively. The Nevada bill was an amendment to their
state constitution, and as required by their state law, was on its
second and final vote. Patients there can posses as much marijuana as
they need, so long as they register with state authorities as doing so.
Colorado patients will be allowed up to two ounces or 6 living Cannabis
plants for their needs. | ||||||||||||||||
Two asset forfeiture reforms also were passed by better than 60% of the
voters in both Oregon and Utah. The new laws require criminal
convictions before asset forfeiture can take place, and redirect the
proceeds of forfeiture away from law enforcement. Instead, proceeds are
given over to drug treatment or general education programs in these
states. | ||||||||||||||||
California was once again in the forefront of reform by passing an
initiative calling for treatment over incarceration for non-violent
drug offenses. Passed by 61% of the voters , the new law is expected
to affect about 25,000 Californians per year, and save over a $100
million per year in prison costs. | ||||||||||||||||
Going down to defeat by a 3-2 margin was a full legalization initiative in Alaska. The bill would have re legalized all the various uses of Cannabis hemp in the frontier state, released all marijuana prisoners from state jails, and provided a commission to look into compensation for those victimized by the drug war. Also defeated Tuesday, but by a smaller 53% margin, was a Massachusetts initiative that combined asset reform with the required treatment over incarceration option. | ||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
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Domestic News- Policy | ||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (1-4) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
Although the failed Presidential election dominates the news, there is
considerable recognition that California's sweeping approval of
Proposition 36 signals an important change in the public's attitude
towards drug policy. | ||||||||||||||||
A Fresno Bee editorial was one of the few to fully grasp the implied
challenge; others- like the LA Times- took a more pedestrian view
which said: "but we're better prepared to incarcerate these
(disposable) people; how do you expect us to change?" | ||||||||||||||||
The increasingly successful reform-by-initiative campaign to modify
American drug policy also received attention in the Honolulu
Advertiser. | ||||||||||||||||
Drug Warriors like to claim such initiatives are passed by poorly
informed voters who don't know their own mind, but professional policy
analysts are of the opposite opinion. | ||||||||||||||||
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(1) DRUG WAR WEARY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
Voters Mandate Radical Change In Drug Strategy. | ||||||||||||||||
On Election Day, California voters grown weary of business as usual in
the war on drugs sent politicians an unmistakable message: "Time out.
Let's rethink our strategy." A huge majority of voters -- more than 60%
-- approved Proposition 36, which requires judges to sentence
nonviolent first-time drug users to treatment rather than to jail or
prison. | ||||||||||||||||
Voter approval signals a remarkable turning point. Nearly every law
enforcement interest in California strongly opposed Proposition 36.
Police, prosecutors and judges issued dire warnings that the initiative
would lead to greater drug abuse. Gov. Gray Davis opposed the measure,
as did Attorney General Bill Lockyer. The state's newspapers were
nearly unanimous in opposition. | ||||||||||||||||
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(2) CRITICS FEAR REFORM MAY STRAIN DRUG PROGRAMS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
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SACRAMENTO--A day after California voters launched a revolution in how
the state handles drug offenders, those on the front lines predicted
that the change would rattle the criminal justice system and strain
already overburdened treatment programs. | ||||||||||||||||
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(3) BILLIONAIRES PUSH DRUG POLICY REFORM (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
Three Men Have Already Backed Several Successful Ballot Initiatives That They Say Collectively Amount To A Referendum On The Drug War | ||||||||||||||||
SAN FRANCISCO -- The three billionaires whose money helped persuade
voter sin California and four other states to soften drug laws now plan
to take their case nationwide. | ||||||||||||||||
"Politics is perception, and the perception up to this point is that voters want tougher and tougher drug policies," said Bill Zimmerman, executive director of the Campaign for New Drug Policies. "The votes we saw (Tuesday) night represent a sea change in that perception." | ||||||||||||||||
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(4) U.S. VOTERS AFFIRM 63% OF ALL BALLOT MEASURES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
Drug Policy Reformers May Be Biggest Winners | ||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON - As they confronted ballot measures, voters shied away from
making sweeping social changes, rejecting, for example, school vouchers
and physician-assisted suicide. | ||||||||||||||||
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The drug policy reform movement scored some of the biggest victories. | ||||||||||||||||
Colorado and Nevada voters approved the use of medical marijuana. Utah and Oregon passed measures making it more difficult for police to seize drug offenders' assets. If seized, such assets are to go to drug treatment and education programs, not to law enforcement. | ||||||||||||||||
California approved a measure to replace automatic prison sentences
with treatment for some nonviolent drug offenders; Massachusetts
defeated a similar measure. Still, drug policy reformers counted five
of six possible victories on state ballot measures. | ||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (5-6) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
Elsewhere, there was additional evidence of a change in the public's
attitude toward drug policy; one example: an Op-Ed from the Texas
Panhandle unequivocally denouncing the drug war; another was a WSJ
editorial commenting, albeit cluelessly, on the phenomenon of changing
public attitudes. | ||||||||||||||||
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(5) WAGING DRUG WAR IS DE FACTO TERRORISM POLICY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
Our country's "drug czar," retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, announced
he is resigning as director of the Office of National Drug Control
Policy in January. | ||||||||||||||||
Already there are strongly worded recommendations from across the country that his successor be either a doctor or a public health professional; that we avoid appointing another military mind to a position that isn't winning whatever war it thinks it's fighting. | ||||||||||||||||
Personally, I am gratified by these suggestions. | ||||||||||||||||
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... a war on drugs, when declared by our own government, commits the | ||||||||||||||||
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(6) WHEN DRUNK DRIVING WAS COOL (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
Don't let anybody tell you we live in a permissive society. True, radio
stations happily broadcast songs that would once have cost them their
licenses. But tell an ethnic joke or toss a cola can into a plastics
recycling bin and the disapprobation of society falls on you with a
force that would have impressed Cotton Mather. | ||||||||||||||||
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But that, of course, is completely different. After all, many of the
same formerly young people who rolled their eyes at Dino still chuckle
at the memory of Cheech & Chong, whose pothead comedy "Up in Smoke" was
one of the big hits of 1978. | ||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (7-8) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
For those interested in both drug policy and politics, the most
prompt- yet perceptive- analysis of Al Gore's failure came from
Salon's Bruce Shapiro; another example of the Internet media
outperforming their traditional colleagues. | ||||||||||||||||
An overseas observer made the same observation (with the help of Sanho
Tree) six days later; as of now, (November 14) mainstream US print
media have yet to notice. Look for them to discover its significance
if the election deadlock extends beyond November 17. | ||||||||||||||||
(7) HARSH LESSONS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
How The Drug War Cost Al Gore African-American Votes In Florida. | ||||||||||||||||
As I write, it is less than 24 hours after Vice President Al Gore did
something new in two centuries of presidential elections: He
un-conceded. | ||||||||||||||||
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How did Florida end up the epicenter of such an extraordinary political earthquake? It's easy enough to point to "the Nader factor," which already has liberals devouring each other alive in a feast of rage. | ||||||||||||||||
But for the sake of their long-term prospects, Democrats might choose
to look in a more productive direction: Florida's extraordinarily high
rate of so-called "felony disenfranchisement" -- the lifelong barring
of ex-offenders from voting. | ||||||||||||||||
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(8) IT'S DIVINE JUSTICE, GORE IS TOLD (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
Drugs Policy Denied Vote To 2M Blacks | ||||||||||||||||
Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles | ||||||||||||||||
Al Gore may have lost America's presidential election not because of a
badly designed ballot, dubious counting practices in Florida or the
defection of independents to Ralph Nader, but because of the criminal
justice policy he and Bill Clinton have pursued for the past eight
years. | ||||||||||||||||
That policy appears to have robbed the Democrats of victory by
disenfranchising nearly one in three black men in Florida, most of
whose votes he would have received. | ||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (9-11) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
As if to reinforce what California voter were saying emphatically,
Newsweek contributing editor Ellis Cose began at ground zero and
spelled out how destructive America's penchant for incarceration has
become for Americans of color. | ||||||||||||||||
An imminent meeting of Catholic prelates will look at the incarceration of drug users as well ; also the racial implications of Tulia continued to pique interest in the nation's large dailies. | ||||||||||||||||
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(9) THE PRISON PARADOX (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
While America puts more and more young blacks and Hispanics in jail, the neighborhoods they leave behind grow even more unstable. | ||||||||||||||||
Inside the tangled culture of the Prison Generation--and what can be done
to try to reclaim lost lives. | ||||||||||||||||
GROWING UP, she never much thought of the law, but of late she has thought
of little else. An attractive, well-coifed woman of 44 given to
conservative suits and sweeping statements, Toylean Johnson has immersed
herself in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure the way some people bury
themselves in the Bible. Johnson, however, is not a lawyer; she's a
hardworking single mom who has watched one male relative after another
carted off to jail | ||||||||||||||||
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Johnson, a senior support specialist at a Houston medical center, estimates
her legal fees and other prison-related costs in the neighborhood of
$50,000 and rising. | ||||||||||||||||
Her dilapidated home with its paint-starved paneling only hints at how
difficult this period has been. She has taken out a second mortgage,
drained her savings and cashed out her retirement. … | ||||||||||||||||
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(10) BISHOPS WANT JUSTICE SYSTEM REFORM (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
The nation's Roman Catholic bishops are calling for a sweeping reform
of the nation's criminal justice system. | ||||||||||||||||
The issue is one of several that will come before the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops when they meet next week in Washington,
D.C. | ||||||||||||||||
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"We are asking for the whole (criminal justice) system to be
overhauled," said Fiorenza, who is serving his third year as president
of the conference. "We are working to have a moratorium on all
executions so that we can review our whole legal system so we can be
sure it is fair and just." | ||||||||||||||||
The bishops want an examination of both federal and state prison
systems. "Are they there just to incarcerate people," Fiorenza asked,
"or do they work toward some type of rehabilitation, particularly with
people who have drug habits and things of that nature?" | ||||||||||||||||
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(11) DRUG BUST CONTROVERSY CONTINUES IN TULIA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
TULIA, Tex. - Allegations of racism and police conspiracy have swirled
like the West Texas wind around this small farming town since a mass
drug bust locked up an estimated 10 percent of the small African
American population. As civil rights activists see it, a small-town
sheriff listed more than three dozen black Americans as "undesirables"
and plotted their arrests to remove them from Tulia. | ||||||||||||||||
Groups including the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP allege the sheriff enlisted the help of a rogue undercover narcotics cop, who fabricated evidence and supplied false trial testimony. Then a series of mostly white juries, believing they were doing their part in the war on drugs, sent the accused off to prison for dealing cocaine. | ||||||||||||||||
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Cannabis & Hemp- | ||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (12-16) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
There were both victories and losses on the cannabis front: Colorado
and Nevada passed medical use initiatives as expected; but- shades of
California- still face unabashed opposition from the officialdom of
both states. | ||||||||||||||||
As if to underscore prevailing police attitudes, a patients'
cooperative was busted in NYC. | ||||||||||||||||
Recreational use was defeated in Alaska; but will probably return in a
less aggressive format; to get the flavor of the confusion in
California, read the response to Mendocino county's endorsement of a
"grow your own" initiative. | ||||||||||||||||
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(12) MARIJUANA FOR MEDICINAL USE QUESTION MUST GO THROUGH LEGISLATURE (Top) TO BE ENACTED | ||||||||||||||||
Despite an overwhelming approval by Nevada voters Tuesday for medical
marijuana use, the state's penalties for possession - the nation's
toughest - - remain in effect. | ||||||||||||||||
The state Attorney General's Office, the Legislative Counsel Bureau's
legal director and local district attorneys want tourists who rely on
marijuana to ease symptoms of their illness to know nothing has changed
yet. | ||||||||||||||||
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(13) COLORADO AMENDMENT 20 STATS, COUNTY BY COUNTY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
Amendment 20 Medical Marijuana | ||||||||||||||||
Voters Approve Medical Marijuana | ||||||||||||||||
It will soon be legal for some chronically ill people to possess and use
marijuana in Colorado. | ||||||||||||||||
However, it still will be illegal for them to get it. | ||||||||||||||||
Backers of Amendment 20, the medical marijuana initiative, say they
will rely on the governor and legislature, among the strongest
opponents of the measure, to find a way to get the illegal substance
into legal hands. | ||||||||||||||||
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(14) 8 IN PATIENTS GROUP BUSTED IN DRUG RAID (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
At least eight members of a patients group that buys marijuana for
medicinal use were busted last night in a raid on their lower East Side
headquarters, police said. | ||||||||||||||||
Cops broke up the weekly meeting of the New York Medical Marijuana Patients Cooperative which provides pot to cancer and AIDS patients. | ||||||||||||||||
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(15) PROPONENTS' GREED BROUGHT HEMP, TAX CAP DOWN VOICES FROM THE COMMUNITY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
The results are in, and is anyone really surprised? Marijuana remains
illegal by some considerable margin. One wonders if either of these
factions will look in a mirror and realize that, radically different as
their issues were, they were both defeated by the same mistake. They
got greedy. | ||||||||||||||||
Moderately stated and intelligently crafted, either of these initiatives could have passed in landslide victories. Marijuana is a relatively benign (not to mention rather boring) intoxicant, and the volume of dollars pumped into its abatement are in no way defensible. | ||||||||||||||||
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(16) MARIJUANA MEASURE WON'T MAKE DIFFERENCE, OFFICIALS SAY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
UKIAH -- Mendocino County's vote to decriminalize pot for personal use will have national significance, advocates said Wednesday. | ||||||||||||||||
"It's a message that will be hard to ignore," said former Rep. Dan
Hamburg of Ukiah, a Measure G proponent. | ||||||||||||||||
Nevertheless, Vroman said when it comes to prosecuting marijuana
cultivation cases, "It's going to be business as usual." "People would
be very mistaken to assume that because Measure G passed, Mendocino
County will become a safe haven for marijuana growers," said Vroman.
Vroman said local authorities may tacitly look the other way at
so-called "mom-and-pop" growers because of staffing and money concerns,
but any reported marijuana cultivation operations whether large or
small will be investigated and prosecuted if warranted. | ||||||||||||||||
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International News | ||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (17-19) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
FARC's present control of Colombia's cocaine industry is the ultimate
outgrowth of brutally successful American-sponsored campaigns against
the cartels; first Medellin, then Cali. The Medellin story was told by
the Philadelphia Inquirer and CNN TV. | ||||||||||||||||
The major consequence of FARC's control of cocaine is Plan Colombia which is effectively spreading conflict into neighboring countries. | ||||||||||||||||
Speaking of how the drug war affects neighboring countries, a good
example is the conversion of Pakistan's opium smokers into heroin
injectors; a process which began when the CIA began helping the
mujahdeen resist Soviet occupation in the early Eighties by developing
opium as a cash crop. | ||||||||||||||||
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(17) COLOMBIA: KILLING PABLO (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
A Deadly Manhunt Guided By The US | ||||||||||||||||
Eight years ago, at the request of the Colombian government, U.S.
military and spy forces helped fund and guide a massive manhunt that
ended with the killing of Pablo Escobar, the richest cocaine trafficker
in the world. While portraying the pursuit of Escobar as essentially a
Colombian operation, the United States secretly spent millions of
dollars and committed elite soldiers, law enforcement agents and the
military's most sophisticated electronic eavesdropping unit to the
chase. | ||||||||||||||||
The full extent of the U.S. role has never before been made public. Details of the 15-month operation, which began during the administration of President George Bush and continued under President Clinton, are revealed in a serial beginning in The Inquirer today. | ||||||||||||||||
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(18) ECUADOR FEELS FALLOUT FROM COLOMBIA'S NARCOTICS WAR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
Border Region Suffers Economic Downturn | ||||||||||||||||
NUEVA LOJA, Ecuador -- Dr. Galo Gonzalez knows this border town has
long profited from the guerrillas and coca farmers in neighboring
Colombia, selling them food, beer, sex, medical care and chemicals to
make cocaine. Thousands of local peasants also have profited, earning
four times their normal day wages in the coca fields of Colombia's
adjoining Putumayo province, which produces nearly half the cocaine
sold on U.S. streets. | ||||||||||||||||
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Plan Colombia has raised fears of a spillover of violence among all of
Colombia's neighbors. Brazil, Peru and Panama have reinforced army and
police units on their borders, and Venezuela has compared the U.S. role
to Vietnam. | ||||||||||||||||
But it is Ecuador that is most vulnerable, a poor and politically
unstable nation of 12 million people, with its steamy Amazon province
of Sucumbios bordering FARC and coca-growing enclaves in western
Putumayo. | ||||||||||||||||
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(19) PAKISTAN: THREAT OF THE NEEDLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
LAHORE, Pakistan - They crouch on sidewalks in the brief camaraderie of
drug users, small clusters of men in filthy pajamas fumbling with
syringes and plastic packets and tin foil. In a few moments they
disperse, one staggering off while another keels over in solitary
oblivion. | ||||||||||||||||
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Pakistan is a major outlet for heroin from next-door Afghanistan, the
world's largest producer of opium poppies from which heroin is made,
and it has developed a large population of addicts in the past 20
years. An estimated 3 million people are habitual drug users, and about
half are addicted to heroin. | ||||||||||||||||
Until recently, most Pakistani addicts smoked heroin or heated it on
tin foil and inhaled the fumes, a method known as "chasing the dragon."
Now, according to a 1999 study by the U.N. Drug Control Program in
Pakistan, injecting pharmaceutical drugs is fast becoming the preferred
method of substance abuse. | ||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (20) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
Those still reading this depressing news may get a lift from the
typically British irony in the next article (it should be read in its
entirety). | ||||||||||||||||
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(20) WESTMINSTER DIARY - COMMENT FROM TAM DALYELL (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
PHILIP COHEN'S article on "antibody therapies" to treat drug addiction,
or "vice vaccines" as they are sometimes called (10 June, p 22),
interested me greatly. In a nutshell, the idea is that it should be
possible to vaccinate people against addictive chemicals. I asked Mo
Mowlam what the government's attitude is to such a strategy. As
minister for the Cabinet Office she has special responsibility for
Britain's anti-drugs policy. | ||||||||||||||||
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WITH many of my fellow MPs admitting their student-day experiences with narcotic drugs, I feel I must relate my own recent brush with one. | ||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
New Activism Resource: Write a Letter to a Corporation | ||||||||||||||||
Here's a new and effective way to have your voice heard on drug policy
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THIS JUST IN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
US CA: Rehab Measure Confuses Law Enforcers
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||
"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest [nation] of people on earth." | ||||||||||||||||
- Will Rogers (1879-1935) | ||||||||||||||||
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