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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael M who wrote (77081)	4/6/2000 7:06:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I don't oppose regulation. I do believe that identity, purity and dosage of the intoxicant should be strictly watched. (The psychedelics in particular have STEEP dose-response curves!) What I oppose are bans and criminalization of possession. There is a great deal of regulatory room between no controls at all and outright prohibition. Alcohol is a decent model here ... it's universally available and universally regulated. (In Eurpoe, there's no annoying 21 year age limit for beer and wine. A teenager can have a Royale with Cheese and a beer chez McD's.) Tobacco was a good model until the recent wave of punitive taxes. Rotten revenooer bandits. Oh, and curious here ... what faves did I blacklist? <g>