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libdem4life

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4. Once it's shown to make a profit and a few months of respectability and national companies to take

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 10:28 PM

Dec 2013

it over, tax it, control it, etc., the "slippery slope" will start to slide. Oaksterdam will reappear. We'll start reading about the medicinal properties they just "discovered", etc. Like Prohibition, "sin" is just a matter of time and economics.

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Uruguay Legalizes Marijuana! [View all] Comrade Grumpy Dec 2013 OP

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Once it's shown to make a profit and a few months of respectability and national companies to take libdem4life Dec 2013 #4

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