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    "title": "An Unhappy Ending To The Drug War?",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "title": "Civil Rights",
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    "created": "2011-07-11 21:10:53 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>The drug war inevitably leads to corruption in the forces recruited to fight it.\u00c2\u00a0 It erodes civil liberties.\u00c2\u00a0 It diverts law enforcement resources from other tasks.\u00c2\u00a0 In a society which believes that lap dancers in strip bars are exercising their constitutionally protected right of free expression and that virtually any government interference in the termination of unborn life is an obscene and inexcusable violation of the right to privacy, it is hard to find good reasons why government should have the right to tell us what chemicals to put in our bloodstreams.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/07/10/an-unhappy-ending-to-the-drug-war/\">An Unhappy Ending To The Drug War? | Via Meadia</a></em>.</p>\n"
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