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To: Colleen M who wrote (18084)	5/4/2000 11:23:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 769667

Oh goodness no, lewis7, I would take a dim view of my 10 year old doing that. Just as I'd be somewhat upset <joke!> if she'd taken Daddy's AR to school on "show and tell". Maybe the hard thing to do here is to assess the actual degree of peril. Imo a "zero tolerance" stance, sort of when you hear people say "well if even one person dies that's one too many", is emotionally compelling but technically out of balance. We have hundreds of kids who die each year in backyard swimming pools, but there is no consumer movement afoot to ban those. Cosmetics, political ones, are important here. Swimming pools in the backyard are a part of the American Dream, while strong drugs are always presented in a package with violent crime. Heck of a marketing job. I respect your distaste for intoxicants. I don't much care for them either. But I think it isn't our Federal Government's place to outright ban what I can do to my body, and worse, spend many billions of our tax dollars on a bloated and ineffective interdiction army. Which uses tactics like confiscating houses, boats etc. on slim evidence. Think of my position not so much as sticking up for druggies as standing against what may perhaps be reasonably described as institutionalized oppression.