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Instead Soros funds drug decriminalization, immigration reform, and Eastern European democracy--projects that may change society.
Did the decriminalization of Pecksniff have more expansive implications?
Helms says he will use his powers as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to derail William Weld's nomination to become ambassador to Mexico because Weld supports the decriminalization of marijuana for medical use.
Seems as reasonable a resume as being a quasi-Texas rich kid with $56 million to burn on being Big Oil's Puppet President, and indeed, Jesse's utterances on drug and prostitution decriminalization, on the need for unions, and the oft-quoted snap about organized religion being a crutch for the weak-minded and an excuse to stick their noses in other people's business, are the kind of discussion I haven't heard from a politician since Abbie Hoffman took it on the lam.
This is not an argument for the legalization or decriminalization of drugs; it is a plea for dispassionate consideration of the respective costs and benefits.