Well then, it's a good job the only policies I've argued for are ones that I hope and believe would lead to lower drug use.Diogenes wrote:Is there a hair somewhere that you are splitting?CKay wrote:Good job I'm not advocating drug use. (Is anyone?)Diogenes wrote: I put the drug advocacy crowd in the same league as "Gaia Worshipers."
Congress may say that it is not advocating corn, while passing subsidies that cause more of it.
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The topic is 'drug' prohibition. *shrug*Diogenes wrote:CKay wrote:The comment was in reply to ScottL's remark -Diogenes wrote:So why did you offer mushrooms as an example of how people are NOT getting addicted to them?Note: he didn't qualify 'drugs' to mean only addictive substances.I just don't think I'd start doing drugs just because they're available.
Non addictive drugs would seem outside the topic of addiction, but that's just me.
Anyhow, I take it that you do not advocate prohibition for non-addictive substances such as psilocybin and LSD?
CKay wrote:Hmm... of course cocaine is dangerous, but heroine... any particular heroine in mind? Scarlett O'Hara? Eliza Doolittle? Jane Eyre...?Diogenes wrote:cocaine and heroine are not dangerous.
English is the only language in the world that has spelling bees or needs them. At leest u hav a cents of hue-mare.
Actually some of them are dangerous. I'm thinking Kate Beckinsale in "Underworld."
Growl....
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CKay wrote:Well then, it's a good job the only policies I've argued for are ones that I hope and believe would lead to lower drug use.Diogenes wrote:Is there a hair somewhere that you are splitting?CKay wrote: Good job I'm not advocating drug use. (Is anyone?)
Congress may say that it is not advocating corn, while passing subsidies that cause more of it.
You talk about it as though it were a bad thing. Are you sure you are on the right side?
‘What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.’
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CKay wrote:The topic is 'drug' prohibition. *shrug*Diogenes wrote:CKay wrote: The comment was in reply to ScottL's remark - Note: he didn't qualify 'drugs' to mean only addictive substances.
Non addictive drugs would seem outside the topic of addiction, but that's just me.
Anyhow, I take it that you do not advocate prohibition for non-addictive substances such as psilocybin and LSD?
No more than I do for Dynamite or Antibiotics. Harmless stuff like that ought to be available to anyone without requiring a license or permit.
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Betruger wrote:Caffeine, booze, nicotine. Everything is poisonous if misused.CKay wrote:Good job I'm not advocating drug use. (Is anyone?)Diogenes wrote: I put the drug advocacy crowd in the same league as "Gaia Worshipers."
This is a good point. All things in moderation.
Betruger wrote: What should be advocated first of all is education.
Yes, we should put warning labels on cigarettes or something.
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