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   mollifire says I'll drink my homebrew to that! (i hope that doesn't defeat the point) :)

   Permalink posted 04/07/2008
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   I am says I would think that would just reinforce it. Where there is a will there is a way.

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   I am says So, you a kegger or a bottler?

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   Dzendvokh says I was thinking about growing hops this year, but I decided against it, didn't want them to over grow my front deck/trellis..... there's a hops shortage this year and I have seen a 1-2 dollar increase in some of my favorites. Prohibition..... what an idiotic idea The current prohibition...i.e. the war on drugs, has done a lot of damage..... (or I guess you could look at it another way.... it has made those prison building contractors mighty happy)

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   I am says The 'war on drugs' has the same consequence as Prohibition. Rampant crime and a lot of high misdemeanors and low felonies to crowd up those jails. I bet you could grow some good one. Not that it takes a lot to grow hops.

   Permalink posted 04/08/2008
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   contrabandwidth says Problem with that so called "drug war" is that the act of "fighting drug cartels" has become too profitable to ever allow them to stop the fight. It's now an industrial complex. Obviously any sane person would say "legalize them all", charge large sales taxes, end the crime it creates, but when contracts and subsidization (see Blackwater's recent recruitment into our "War on Drugs"), why would anyone want to stop fighting it. The act of the fight has become more valuable than the drugs themselves. Talk about bureaucratic bungling... Idea - Anytime a new "Czar" is put into power (Drug Czar, Information Security Czar, etc) that government agency ceases to exist - as in the people vote to disband it due to obvious mismanagement. How would anything ever be expected to get done when a king is expected to ever relinquish his kingdom?

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   I am says Tyler, I probably have a tirade about the "War on Drugs" somewhere on MOG. Much of my time in the service was aimed at stopping drugs in the Caribbean and East Pacific. It boggles the imagination to actually itemize the amount of cash to operate a Navy Destroyer whose sole purpose was to patrol and engage "suspected" drug runners.

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   Dzendvokh says Oh ... but our government is all about waste..... the more wasted spending there is, whether the "war on drugs" or the "war on Terror", the more money is being funneled to some greedy bastard on top. Yeah, hops are easy to grow... not sure why there's a shortage. They will grow 30-40 feet in a season, and then die back to nothing during the winter.' BTW, anyone getting mog notifications? I haven't gotten any for a while now.

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   contrabandwidth says There's about a two minute scene in "The Good Sheppard" which I think sums up or could illustrate perfectly the genesis of the Drug Wars. Matt Damon's character is meeting with a botanist who shows him a locust that will effectively destroy a marxist latin american countries coffee crop (obvious main economic product). It's so underhanded, and un-nerving, I can't get it out of my head. I think it illustrates perfectly the mentality behind people "fighting" these wars.

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    waydutch says Nothing to add really, other than your points are well made and right on

    Permalink posted 04/08/2008

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