re: Laughing my arse off

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I wouldn't have voted for Bern

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good, since he's awful

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If Gary Johnson had a chance I'd vote libertarian. Johnson was the first major politician to advocate ending the so called "war against drugs."

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If a libertarian actually had a chance to win I'd probably vote that way. It is absolutely face melting that it's 2016 and people are still being jailed in parts of the country for igniting a plant that grows from the ground, yet aren't in other parts. The war on drugs is one of the biggest jokes in American history.

From Nixon advisor John Eherlicman:

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“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

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and nearly 50 years later we're still being punished. Sickening.