Voting McCain to defend freedom? The guy's a socialist bastard.

What an option, Socialism Lite (McCain) or Socialism Genuine Draft (Obama)

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Libertas inaestimabilis res est - Liberty is a thing beyond all price. | Sic Semper Tyrannis

while I might debate vi about who mccain would nominate.
Lord knows we don't need another conservative on the bench.

I 100% agree with said statement.
It's a scary thought of a bleak marxis future.

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La Guardia Committee Report - Table of Contents

Pretty much discredited the official view of FDR's administration. (see Reefer Madness).

FBI didn't want much to do with enforcement.

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Harry S. Truman

While there's no doubt that both parties have been complicit in bringing about marijuana's illegality, the Republican party with it's ultra-conservative constituency has, and very likely will always be, the "War on drugs" main support base.

In 1930 only 16 states had laws prohibiting marijuana, by 1937 all states had adopted some form of legislation restricting its use. The main force behind the law's passage in state and federal law in the years between 30' and 37' was the Treasury Department's Bureau of Narcotics. The bureau's efforts took two forms: cooperating in the development of state legislation affecting the use of marijuana and providing facts and figures for journalistic accounts of the "problem".

Republican Herbert Hoover created the Bureau of Narcotics with a majority Republican congress by an act (46 Stat. 585) on June 14, 1930.

Anslinger, a staunch conservative, was appointed by Republican Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, his niece, Martha Denniston, was Anslinger's wife.

Members of the Democratic Party, with their big city constituency, have long had a vested interest in federal drug control policy. They have, at times, played forceful roles in the often bipartisan issue. Many in the Democratic Party have stood firmly behind the need for drug control; splits within the party usually have taken place over the priorities, funding levels, or strategies for controlling drugs. Most moderate and liberal Democrats have favored an approach that emphasizes prevention and treatment over interdiction and enforcement, while the more conservative Southern Democrats have often favored a tougher, law and order approach to the problem.

From 1976 through the 102d Congress, the three Democrats who served as the chairman of the House Select Narcotics Abuse and Control Committee played important roles in drug policy. They were Representatives Lester L. Wolff, Leo C. Zeferetti, and Charles B. Rangel, all from New York City.

Despite the involvement of many Democrats in drug policy, it was conservative Republican President Ronald Reagan who elevated the issue to the national spotlight with his war on drugs of the early 1980s. Since, the issue has remained of paramount public and political importance, arising during every presidential election since 1980 as members of both parties articulated their approaches for handling the problem. The issue became particularly heated during the 1988 presidential campaigns. Jesse Jackson, a candidate in the 1988 Democratic Party presidential primaries, tried to make drug control into a major foreign policy issue. Jackson called for a drug czar to coordinate the efforts of the agencies fighting the drug war, more money for the Coast Guard, and possible use of the military. Michael Dukakis, the eventual 1988 Democratic presidential candidate, made similar demands.

Unfortunately for the Democrats, however, it was Republican George Bush who won the 1988 presidential election, and he lost no time in continuing former conservative Republican President Ronald Reagan's war on drugs. Passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 created a cabinet-level "drug czar" (coined by Joe Biden Jr. in 1982), and Bush appointed ultra-conservative William J. Bennett to the post. He focused on combating street sales of drugs and on financing anti-drug efforts in the countries from which the drugs were originating.

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