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Warpy

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5. That's another major contributing factor,
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 10:55 PM
Apr 2013

the unconstitutional "war against drugs," which has become a war on the civil liberties of American citizens, especially citizens of color.

Put psychoactive drugs in every Walgreen's and Walmart available with only a flash of a driver's license to verify age, and a lot of the mental anguish would disappear. So would a lot of the stress over pain that anybody who doesn't work a cushy desk job feels.

Note I specified "cushy."

Something has got to give eventually and when it does, it's going to be incredibly violent.

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