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From: gabor@qantel.UUCP (Gabor Fencsik@ex2642)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: The war on drugs
Message-ID: <686@qantel.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 02:36:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 15 02:36:01 1986
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Reply-To: gabor@qantel.UUCP (Gabor Fencsik)
Organization: MDS Qantel, Hayward, CA
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In article <7222@sun.uucp> falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk) writes:
>                                     ...  What I find most disturbing of
>all is that (in California at least) the government is CONFISCATING land
>used to grow marijuana.  That sounds awfully draconian to me.  It reminds
>me of how the church used to expand its wealth during the Inquisition; by
>confiscating the property of heretics.  

The law authorizing the seizure of land used for drug cultivation has been 
on the books for two years now but so far it has proved quite ineffective.
It seems to be going the way of other draconian laws adopted by hysterical
legislatures: juries in rural Northern California are refusing to convict,
given that a guilty verdict would sanction the taking of their neighbor's 
land.  (It's a Federal law, by the way.)

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Gabor Fencsik                  {ihnp4,dual,lll-crg,hplabs}!qantel!gabor