re: DEA raids home gardener after buying 16 oz of fertilizer at garden store

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So which one is it? Are you claiming its legal or not?

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Technically what they did was legal in today's world

But that doesnt make it right. Slavery and rape were both legal at one point in America.

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I dunno but I kinda agree that we should oppose cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin distribution.

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Perhaps we should. But drugs will always be around. Always. They have been here since the beginning of time and they arent going away. People will always find ways to get high. It is more important to try and rehabilitate drug addicts and get them to become productive members of society than it is to throw every single person who has had a bad life or made a questionable decision into jail all but guaranteeing that they remain unproductive drug addicts.

And giving the federal government's agents the ability to legally SWAT raid a private residence for a tiny marijuana infraction which arguably should be legal anyway is horribly wrong and a completely abandonment of many of the core principles foe which this country and government were founded.

The consistent and systematic ingraining of military tactics and shoot first act later mentality in our local and state and federal police force is a horrible slippery slope which the citizens are being effected by more and more everyday.

Prohibition gave rise to some of the most powerful gangs and gang leaders in this country's history. The war on drugs is doing the same thing.

Decriminalizing the use of these drugs takes the power away from those gang leaders and puts more resources towards curbing the distribution rather than rounding up the addicts.