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To: Snowshoe who wrote (64343)5/27/2005 5:04:56 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (4) of 74559
 
Today, the religious cranks still have an effect, with Corby being imprisoned for 20 years for having some dope in Indonesia.

<Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Unitarians, Quakers and other dissenting churches enthusiastically adopted this cause. Parishes and convocations held meetings and submitted numerous mass petitions in support of the anti-opiumists.>

You can lead a Chinese to opium, but you can't make him suck. Blaming the British for the opium trade is silly.

Blaming the suppliers for people using something is wrong. Coca Cola doesn't force people to use cocaine, or caffeine, or sugar. Sucking smoke through cigarettes is a personal choice. Befuddling one's brain with vodka is not a government conspiracy.

A better missionary message than making drugs illegal is for people to think for themselves, not follow the leaders.

"Religion is the opiate of the masses" is about right. Maybe the religious don't like the competition. Selling religion is more profitable than selling plant toxins.

Plant toxins should be treated as plant toxins and people left to ingest them if they wish. Learning that plants don't love us is a good idea. [Fruit-bearing plants do love us to some extent, but that's a minor exception]. If people want to poison themselves, I don't want to pay to put them in prison. I don't really care if they poison themselves.

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