Decertified, by the U.S.? These days that's like Carrot
Top telling you that you're not
funny. Or, the President rejecting your accounting method. Being
decertified would mean losing financial assistance from the U.S.
Government, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development, and
the IMF. Shoot, where
are they gonna get money if they make it legal to smoke dope
on an island paradise?
While
you're "brainstorming" for new sources for cash, put
this in your pipe and smoke it: The U.S. Government fights drugs
in the form of naturally growing plants, while other drugs in
the form of unnaturally colored pills are encouraged through sweeping
marketing campaigns. The prices of addictive, depression-relieving
medication and the salaries of their CEOs, VPs, et al, are
going through the roof, stabilized at these high levels thanks
to the tireless efforts of the pharmaceutical lobbyists. The
lobbyists convince the various members of Congress against forcing
reasonably priced unnatural drugs, and in exchange the members
of Congress get election fundraisers and campaign cash from the
drug companies. The Congressmen start a new term and spend billions
of tax dollars fighting coca and opium plants, why? Well if anyone
can grow it, or pick it up at the corner grocery store, the CEO
says, "Why would anyone ever buy our product?" Read
this.
In case you
haven't guessed, support will come in the form of several new
multi-million dollar hotels, the
millions of Earth citizens staying in them, and a very reasonable
5% ganja-tax.
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8/29/01
- They'll be HELL to pay if Jamaica breaks a treaty! The U.S. 
While
you're "brainstorming" for new sources for cash, put
this in your pipe and smoke it: The U.S. Government fights drugs
in the form of naturally growing plants, while other drugs in
the form of unnaturally colored pills are encouraged through sweeping
marketing campaigns. The prices of addictive, depression-relieving
medication and the salaries of their CEOs, VPs, et al,