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Drug Policy

90-percent

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2. Mexico

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Mon Apr 9, 2012, 04:47 AM

Apr 2012

The conventional wisdom is that 50,000 people have been killed recently in the Mexican Drug Wars.

the people that run our planet sure don't give a rats ass about their fellow human beings, or else they'd stop the insanity.

Do these pin heads know nothing about the history of prohibitions and the organized crime consequences?

Root Question: Why is the demand for drugs in America so strong? What is it with us that we need all these drugs just to get through life?

-90% Jimmy

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