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Posted at 2007-08-22 05:36:17 [PermaLink]I don't think they have any intention of stamping it out completely. If you create a species of contraband and generally turn a blind eye to it, you wind up with a ready-made excuse to arrest dissidents on non-political charges.
(In fact, if Bush was the tyrant he's made out to be, you'd half the leadership of Code Pink and ANSWER in jail on marijuana charges at any given time.)
Pretty soon there will be Iranian teens on tractors playing chicken. Those kids need Ren McCormick to shake things up.
Posted at 2007-08-22 08:31:47 [PermaLink]The USSR couldn't stamp that out; no surprise a few Mullahs can't.
(I doubt they're doing what Eric J. thinks, if only because they've never seemed to care about pretending to have non-political reasons to arrest people, especially since they already have religious reasons, and given the nature of the Iranian state, there's no open distinction.)