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This is just plain embarrassing that anyone should have to explain this to you, but here goes..

"...has been agreed on both sides of the border, by politicians, police and public alike"
You're a moderator on a website that regularly uncovers the lies of politicians, police and the media and you're standing on a soapbox about their merits?! Are you for real?

I know that everybody watching this thread is shaking their head at your back-pedaling and complete oblivion to the obvious factors involved in this topic, so let me explain it real slow for you - politicians are compensated financially to pass laws that give big business leverage in making more money with almost complete disregard for the rights and safety of the population.

Your point about the electric car went straight above my head. To me it made absolutely no sense to the topic in this thread. will you explain it in another way?

The reason why I mentioned the electric car and the oil industry was to illustrate for you how big business and government are in cahoots with one another. You're repeating what you must have picked up on Fox news or something about how marijuana is the root of the problem that Mexico is facing, and therefore we must divide ourselves further by alienating these deviants that are okay with people dying for their little recreational toke, as you so aptly put it. Does that sound about right to you? Or has it occurred to you that the war on drugs is just another excuse to ramp up the military industrial complex? Hmmmmmmmmmm?

Have I suggested that home growers are responsible for the Mexico problem? I don't think so.

No, you just issued a blanket statement to include ALL who use.

Is the wasteful killing worth it for a toke? Are the users so egoist to let people die for their little high?

I don't have the time to provide you with a list of links to show you how the 'Drug War' is financed by the same people that fight it, but maybe someone else with more patience will enlighten you. I don't have any left at this point.

Once again, I'm really suprised that pot smokers defend themselves to the bitter end, even those who have nothing to do with the subject matter in hand. Must be the paranoia that cannabis gives one after prolonged use.

Don't you think your little back-handed accusations and insults are transparent? They are to me, and I'm embarrassed to see you employing the same kind of tactic the PTB uses in swaying people's opinions - not with fact, but with innuendo. Whether or not I, or anyone else discussing this topic smokes marijuana is besides the point. If you don't think people have a right to smoke what they can grow from the ground, that's your opinion. But trying to lay the responsibility of all that suffering at the feet of pot smokers is about as laughable as jet fuel bringing down the twin towers.

I'm done.
Peace