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well, dk, there are a few issues that are mashed together in your post--maybe i'll get back to them later on (it's a nice day and i want to go outside and play for a while)...but i'll say it's obvious you haven't lived in france, where the question of identity registration and papers is much different than it is here--you end up having to use your identification papers for alot more things, alot more routinely, than you do in the states. when i first moved there, i found it really intrusive--but because i had not experienced that before.
on the other hand, i was in france to study left political culture, and found that in many ways france is more free than the united states because of its political culture--this even as power is much more centralized in the state.
and i don't recall anyone arguing: the state can regulate marijuana traffic yay!
i recall people describing it as a simple and easy way to integrate marijuana into the run of other, legal beverages--so into the systems that already exist. none of which existed in anything like the present form in 1788. they just didn't.
but it is still a nice day outside.
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