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From: tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Can we legalize? (drug laws support rightist underground)
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Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 06:24:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  5 06:24:47 1987
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->I agree with Shawn.  Even if I was for legalization, I don't think it can
->be done.  The organized elements that deal the stuff are just too powerful.
->I haven't read "Underground Empire" yet, but it is in line on my bookshelf
->to be read.

There is one good argument for keeping drugs illegal. Evidently drug
sales have been supporting the Contras, and the underground right-wing
shadow organization that developed after Carter kicked a lot of
operations people out of the CIA.