quoted 9 lines Lander wrote:
> Lander wrote:
>
> Why don't they
> try to outlaw chocolate or sex? Because drugs really do hurt people, and
> can destroy lives and families, and are, more importantly (said with
> cynicism on 11), an easy political target in America 2001.
> Whatever the Drug War Generals' intentions are, they certainly seem to
> come accross as equally anti-drug and anti-user (-seller, -maker,
> whatever). Both the product and the person are destroyed with impunity.
Well dome kinds of sex do hurt people (in a bad way), but those types are
already illegal. Bad diet can hurt people (if they eat too much over a
period of many years and die of heart failure etc) but people are left to
control their own (ab)use of chocolate. And oh yeah, *cough* tobacco and
alcohol *cough* are extremely harmful to humans yet the profits from the
sale of booze and cigarettes are used to fund numerous political things (in
the US particularly). The UK government actively discourage smoking and put
so much tax on cigarettes that a pack of 20 now costs nearly GBP5 (USD7.50).
Try to imagine a world where tobacco is banned, but crack cocaine is totally
legal, like the two products had switched places. You're allowed a certain
number of crack-breaks at work. The government is sponsored by crack. Sounds
terrible, doesn't it? Admittedly, tobacco and crack aren't that similar, but
they're both addictive, smokeable, and damage your internal workings in some
way.
There was a movie I saw a while ago called "Deep Cover" where Jeff Goldblum
was trying to invent a wonder-drug which made you feel great, wasn't
addictive, and wasn't harmful in any way. Surely this would be a great
thing...why doesn't the government actively fund research into this?
G-love.
http://www.gram.org.uk
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