Re: yet another US electile disfunction commentary

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> G'day Yoshie,
>
> > Hey, sin taxes hit the working class harder than the rich.  So why
> > not chuck tobacco taxers out of the window, too?
>
> Legalise all drugs, and then tax 'em all, I reckon.  Once you get the coke,
> ecstacy, and acid revenues in, you'd be distributing the tax load much more
> fairly, I think.  And you'd getter much better conversations, more sex, and
> probably better voting behaviour out of your day and its inhabitants.
>
> Yours for a drug-led recovery,
> Rob.

Yeah, I'd like to agree with you, but one qualification.  Perhaps
decriminalization (non-enforcement of laws) may be, in some ways,
better than full legalization, for the latter would create
multinational corporations & franchises monopolizing recreational
drug production & trade, in the process destroying coca-producing
peasants, petty drug dealers, etc., thus taking away sources of
incomes & jobs from many oppressed communities.

Likewise, activist prostitutes have often argued for
decriminalization but not legalization, for the latter tends to put
prostitutes under the control of the capitalist state.

Yoshie