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There is no question that this project has caused MAWR inconvenience to tourists and workers who crossed the border regularly. Some are obviously experiencing a measure of economic hardship. But if this were an epidemic disease that crippled and took the lives of our youth, the an economic

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hardships and the economic or the inconvenience to travelers would be considered inconsequential by all thinking. Californians, narcotics addiction and the use of dangerous drugs is as damaging to this nation and its future generations as any disease spread by a German. The economic hardship to some and

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the inconvenience to travelers cannot be balanced on the same scale, with shattered lives, heartbroken families and the astronomical cost of courts, judges, juvenile facilities, law enforcement agencies and the rehabilitation and treatment costs required to treat the addicted. There is only one way to stop a epidemic

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on that is to isolate the virus that causes it and destroy it. Operation Intercept is trying to do just that. There is a difference of opinion. There is a certain you confined certain medical or scientific uh, claims that marijuana is not mhm harmful or dangerous, and

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that it does come under the same category of something like alcohol. But you confined and equally, and I think, a larger body. A scientific opinion that this is not true, that to use the technicality of claiming marijuana isn't addictive is to use a medical technicality, that

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it isn't addictive in the sense that there are withdrawal pains if you quit. But almost everyone has agreed that it is psychologically addictive, which is much the same thing. The I'm not. I'm not equipped here to go into all of the details, but I do know

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great body of information that has been collected by those who were concerned.