On 1/25/2013 10:05 AM, Warp wrote:
> John VanSickle <evi### [at] kosherhotmailcom> wrote:
>> The US Constitution does not authorize Congress to ban marijuana[1].
>> And unless words have no meaning, the Tenth Amendment reserves to the
>> states those powers which are not reserved to the federal government,
>> but the courts have generally failed to enforce the Tenth.
>
> I saw somewhere a graph showing homicide rates (ie. homicides per capita)
> in the United States during the last about 100 years.
>
> There was a big slope up in the 20's, about coinciding with the
> ratification of the 18th amendment, and a slope down somewhere after
> the 21st amendment was ratified.
>
> Decades later there was another big slope up (not as steep, but reaching
> about the same height), coinciding with the start of the so-called "war
> on drugs" in the US. The curve is still pretty high since those times.
>
> Now, I understand that correlation does not necessarily imply causation,
> but I would like to see really good reasons why that's not the case here.

It's well-known here in the States that a great deal of the murders that 
go on are gang-related.  Much of it is one gangster killing another in 
turf wars.

In our suburbs and rural areas, the homicide rates are much like 
Canada's or Europe's.

Regards,
John

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