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cannabis_flower

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4. Actually...

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Mon Oct 19, 2015, 12:32 PM

Oct 2015

That's what we already are allowed to to.

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html

Key phrase in there is "except as punishment".

They disallowed slavery for no reason, now they just need to find a law for you to break to enslave you. The disallowed Jim Crow so they created drug laws.

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* HUCKABEE ON SLAVERY [View all] LiberalArkie Oct 2015 OP

Le duh shenmue Oct 2015 #1

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Actually... cannabis_flower Oct 2015 #4

And now we know the rest of the story about why prisons are so profitable. LiberalArkie Oct 2015 #5