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	<title>Comments on: Despite Legalization, Drug Dealers Continue to Do Business and Kill in Colorado</title>
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		<title>By: Ben Cohen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Cohen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2014 07:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;It leads to an increase in tax revenue which is more than offset by the expenses created by its users.&quot;


1) Can you provide any evidence that legalizing marijuana costs more than keeping it illegal, actual numbers would be useful.


2) Even if you could prove that marijuana legalization was more expensive, would you accept that as the basis for policy? Are we going to decide what activities people can engage in based strictly on the impact those activities have on the government&#039;s budget? Personally, I&#039;ll support freedom even if it isn&#039;t revenue neutral.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;It leads to an increase in tax revenue which is more than offset by the expenses created by its users.&#8221;</p>
<p>1) Can you provide any evidence that legalizing marijuana costs more than keeping it illegal, actual numbers would be useful.</p>
<p>2) Even if you could prove that marijuana legalization was more expensive, would you accept that as the basis for policy? Are we going to decide what activities people can engage in based strictly on the impact those activities have on the government&#8217;s budget? Personally, I&#8217;ll support freedom even if it isn&#8217;t revenue neutral.</p>
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		<title>By: Boots</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Boots]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giuliani used the broken windows strategy and it worked because of the holistic approach of ignoring nothing... which included minor drug offenses and petty crime.  He also held the neighborhoods accountable to work with NYPD... which most citizens were happy with.  As far as illegal drugs causing the crime... depends on which peer reviewed studies you believe.  To me the studies suggest a study with an agenda can get the result they want.  You can conduct your own non scientific study by going to the neighborhoods with open illegal drug use and then get back to me and tell how save you feel... if you make it out.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Giuliani used the broken windows strategy and it worked because of the holistic approach of ignoring nothing&#8230; which included minor drug offenses and petty crime.  He also held the neighborhoods accountable to work with NYPD&#8230; which most citizens were happy with.  As far as illegal drugs causing the crime&#8230; depends on which peer reviewed studies you believe.  To me the studies suggest a study with an agenda can get the result they want.  You can conduct your own non scientific study by going to the neighborhoods with open illegal drug use and then get back to me and tell how save you feel&#8230; if you make it out.</p>
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		<title>By: alericKong</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[alericKong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You think illegal drugs create criminals. I think criminals seek out illegal drugs as well as other awful acts because they could care less about society and other people.



We have plans which work. Giuliani cleaned up New York by forcing police to do their jobs and getting rid of corruption in city government.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You think illegal drugs create criminals. I think criminals seek out illegal drugs as well as other awful acts because they could care less about society and other people.</p>
<p>We have plans which work. Giuliani cleaned up New York by forcing police to do their jobs and getting rid of corruption in city government.</p>
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		<title>By: A Z</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Z]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not know how many junkies there were in the Chinese military at that time.  But I will be looking for reference for it now. 

I&#039;ll put it down to superior tech, superior drill, belief in the forces elan, etc

It was a shameful episode and lots of countries have those.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do not know how many junkies there were in the Chinese military at that time.  But I will be looking for reference for it now. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ll put it down to superior tech, superior drill, belief in the forces elan, etc</p>
<p>It was a shameful episode and lots of countries have those.  </p>
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		<title>By: Boots</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Boots]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;d love to see if it&#039;s possible to figure out how many of the barroom deaths are beer/alcohol related and how many are drug deal related and how many are domestic violence.  Bars are a pretty common drug trade venue so I&#039;d like to know if the bar/alcohol is the problem in bar deaths or other factors such as other illegal activity.  Hell&#039;s Angels are a good example of bar patrons involved in the illegal drug trade and frequent bars.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d love to see if it&#8217;s possible to figure out how many of the barroom deaths are beer/alcohol related and how many are drug deal related and how many are domestic violence.  Bars are a pretty common drug trade venue so I&#8217;d like to know if the bar/alcohol is the problem in bar deaths or other factors such as other illegal activity.  Hell&#8217;s Angels are a good example of bar patrons involved in the illegal drug trade and frequent bars.</p>
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		<title>By: alericKong</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[alericKong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, no one&#039;s murdered in a bar anymore.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sure, no one&#8217;s murdered in a bar anymore.</p>
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		<title>By: UCSPanther</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[UCSPanther]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 06:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will get the potheads all riled up.  They don&#039;t like it when anyone so much as says anything against their &quot;substance&quot;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This will get the potheads all riled up.  They don&#8217;t like it when anyone so much as says anything against their &#8220;substance&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: UCSPanther</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[UCSPanther]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 06:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They just switched to other illegal activities....

...like drugs.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They just switched to other illegal activities&#8230;.</p>
<p>&#8230;like drugs.</p>
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		<title>By: wileyvet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[wileyvet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me smoke weed, the pot head pleads. Tune in, Turn on, Drop out, Man. Hey, dude , you&#039;re killing my buzz. Go ahead and Puff the Magic Dragon you little ninny and then take a shower before you begin to smell like Janice Joplin.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me smoke weed, the pot head pleads. Tune in, Turn on, Drop out, Man. Hey, dude , you&#8217;re killing my buzz. Go ahead and Puff the Magic Dragon you little ninny and then take a shower before you begin to smell like Janice Joplin.</p>
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		<title>By: truebearing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[truebearing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And this is why libertarians can believe whatever they want to, but will never be able to actually govern. On both ends of the political spectrum, Marxism and Libertarianism, political/economic ideologies, devoid of true morality, insist that utopia is just around the corner if only everyone would just see the light. Legalize drugs and all will be well. Nonsense, and now reality is once again flogging ideology, but the real dogmatists will never admit it.


Not only is there an incentive for the user to buy cheaper dope, there is a bigger incentive for the illegal trafficker to avoid INCOME TAX. Looks like a real loser to me, but then, when did the potheads ever listen to reason?


Before some synaptically challenged weed lover begins ranting at me about how safe it is, I know all about it. I have smoked plenty of it in the past. I have read both sides of the argument, and haven&#039;t ignored the growing medical evidence, or traffic fatality statistics. I don&#039;t recall it making me a safer driver, smarter student, or better at anything other than wasting time, and I was already gifted at that.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And this is why libertarians can believe whatever they want to, but will never be able to actually govern. On both ends of the political spectrum, Marxism and Libertarianism, political/economic ideologies, devoid of true morality, insist that utopia is just around the corner if only everyone would just see the light. Legalize drugs and all will be well. Nonsense, and now reality is once again flogging ideology, but the real dogmatists will never admit it.</p>
<p>Not only is there an incentive for the user to buy cheaper dope, there is a bigger incentive for the illegal trafficker to avoid INCOME TAX. Looks like a real loser to me, but then, when did the potheads ever listen to reason?</p>
<p>Before some synaptically challenged weed lover begins ranting at me about how safe it is, I know all about it. I have smoked plenty of it in the past. I have read both sides of the argument, and haven&#8217;t ignored the growing medical evidence, or traffic fatality statistics. I don&#8217;t recall it making me a safer driver, smarter student, or better at anything other than wasting time, and I was already gifted at that.</p>
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		<title>By: Charlie B</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie B]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s why beer gangs are constantly shooting it out more than 80 years after Prohibition was repealed...Oh, wait...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s why beer gangs are constantly shooting it out more than 80 years after Prohibition was repealed&#8230;Oh, wait&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: UCSPanther</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[UCSPanther]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opium addiction nearly destroyed China at that time, which led to the Chinese monarchy outlawing it initially.  The reason the British were able to invade China so easily during the Opium wars was due to the fact that the Chinese military of the time was chock full of junkies who were unable/unwilling to put up an effective fight.

I consider the Chinese Opium Saga to be a shameful chapter in British history, and one with a bitter lesson of how dangerous substance abuse is to a nation&#039;s well-being/strength, and how it can be an effective weapon for conquest.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Opium addiction nearly destroyed China at that time, which led to the Chinese monarchy outlawing it initially.  The reason the British were able to invade China so easily during the Opium wars was due to the fact that the Chinese military of the time was chock full of junkies who were unable/unwilling to put up an effective fight.</p>
<p>I consider the Chinese Opium Saga to be a shameful chapter in British history, and one with a bitter lesson of how dangerous substance abuse is to a nation&#8217;s well-being/strength, and how it can be an effective weapon for conquest.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 02:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complicated problems requires comprehensive solutions that are tested each step and forced to adjust to the realities of what effect the program has along the way. They are very difficult to manage, especially from the top down. Politicians don&#039;t ruin everything, it just seems that way because the real percentage is so high.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Complicated problems requires comprehensive solutions that are tested each step and forced to adjust to the realities of what effect the program has along the way. They are very difficult to manage, especially from the top down. Politicians don&#8217;t ruin everything, it just seems that way because the real percentage is so high.</p>
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		<title>By: A Z</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Z]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The libertarian side of me wants to go for &quot;harm reduction&quot; strategies &amp;  try to take the profit out of drug smuggling. For the latter I look at  experience of Prohibition in the U.S.

But I can never quite get there and stay there as I know the history of the Opium Wars and of modern day cigarette smuggling.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The libertarian side of me wants to go for &#8220;harm reduction&#8221; strategies &amp;  try to take the profit out of drug smuggling. For the latter I look at  experience of Prohibition in the U.S.</p>
<p>But I can never quite get there and stay there as I know the history of the Opium Wars and of modern day cigarette smuggling.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2014 23:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It has done nothing more than enhance the opportunity for the black market,” said Lt. Mark Comte of the Colorado Springs police vice and narcotics unit. “If you can get it tax-free on the corner, you’re going to get it on the corner.”





I&#039;m sure I explained this to the idiots quite some time ago.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“It has done nothing more than enhance the opportunity for the black market,” said Lt. Mark Comte of the Colorado Springs police vice and narcotics unit. “If you can get it tax-free on the corner, you’re going to get it on the corner.”</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure I explained this to the idiots quite some time ago.</p>
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		<title>By: A Z</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Z]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2014 23:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So why did we legalize drugs?

The Chinese were forced by the British to legalize opium after the two Opium Wars.  After 2 or 3 generation British opinion was decidedly against drugs and so it was outlawed. The Chinese court  and diplomats saw British public opinion and used it to get the British government to see importation into China of Opium over a 10 year period starting in 1906.

&quot;Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China&quot;
by Jung Chang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opium_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Cixi]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So why did we legalize drugs?</p>
<p>The Chinese were forced by the British to legalize opium after the two Opium Wars.  After 2 or 3 generation British opinion was decidedly against drugs and so it was outlawed. The Chinese court  and diplomats saw British public opinion and used it to get the British government to see importation into China of Opium over a 10 year period starting in 1906.</p>
<p>&#8220;Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China&#8221;<br />
by Jung Chang</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opium_War" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opium_War</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Cixi" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Cixi</a></p>
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