Pubdate: Tue, 18 Mar 2003
Source: Idaho State Journal (ID)
Copyright: 2003 Idaho State Journal
Contact:  http://www.journalnet.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/936
Author: Violet Stephens

READER VIEW: DRUG PARAPHERNALIA

In response to the reader whose opinion was published regarding drug 
paraphernalia and how the police illegally violated the rights of people 
marketing drug paraphernalia: If you don't like it, why don't you move to 
southern California, where all head shops are free to proliferate their 
goods to the locals and the crime rates are through the roof!

Children are left running around in dirty diapers on the streets while Mom 
entertains a guest with some "herbs" that they share in a hooka purchased 
from a head shop, that is very obviously not advertising the aromas of sage 
and thyme, with the money they made selling my stolen car stereo to another 
dealer who plans to purchase the new purple, three-foot-tall hooka with 
magic mushrooms painted all over it at the self same "smoke shop!"

That little bit about Second Amendment rights was rather twisted. There is 
a distinct difference in the right to bear arms to ensure a free society 
and the right to peddle drug paraphernalia to hold captive a society for 
your own monetary gain (or political agenda, whatever it may be).

Good for the police department! Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Violet Stephens,

Moreno Valley, Calif. 
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MAP posted-by: Beth