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I mean, why are you making claims that neither you nor anybody else can back up? You could have said anything in reply to my comment, or even nothing at all, but you chose to say something that you have no idea about. That's somehow my fault?


I can very easily back up the claim that the USA does not have equality under the law.

Your claim that no one has ever wanted to import coca leaves requires a laughably impossible amount of evidence


>Your claim that no one has ever wanted to import coca

No, no. I made no claim, I just asked a question.

>Could a new business be started that had a legitimate use for coca and could get a similar exception extended to it?

Instead of saying something you know for a fact, such as "I don't know", you made a specific claim:

>there's been presumably hundreds of applicants (at least) who have tried the same and been rejected

You've admitted you can't possibly know this. Don't try to shift the burden of proof onto me. I don't need to provide evidence for something I didn't claim. Maybe some businesses have tried to obtain that exception, maybe none has. I don't know, and you don't know either.

Just admit you said something dumb and move on.


I said presumably for a reason. We can't presume anything? Your question didn't even make sense. The exception was applied back in the 20's. Your question of "gee has anyone wanted that same exception" is a dumb question and I was dumb to try to answer it, correct.




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