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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (14229)	5/24/2001 3:13:36 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Did you perhaps mean to say: Natural drugs are bad and synthetic drugs are good. Nothing of the sort. Our society, on the whole, disapproves of the idea of recreational drugs; it's a puritan thing. Drugs designed to cure illness are generally approved, as long as they aren't fun. I'm not saying either is good or bad; my personal opinion is that there is a place for each, and that each may be abused. That does not change, though, the observation that recreational drugs are almost always illegal and therapeutic drugs are generally legal. The natural/synthetic distinction is not relevant: LSD and methamphetamine are thoroughly synthetic and, because they are recreational, entirely illegal. Many natural substances are deemed therapeutic, and therefore legal I don't see legalization of recreational drugs cutting in on the therapeutic drug market in any significant way. The drugs sold for recreational purposes have few significant therapeutic applications. The main threat posed by legalization of recreational drugs would not be to producers of therapeutic drugs, but to purveyors of other forms of recreation. The booze companies would certainly be hit hard. Recreational drug legalization will not take away markets from conventional drug producers. If anything, it will open them: if recreational drugs are legalized, how long do you think it will be before major pharmaceutical companies introduce recreational products? Do you think the traditional marketers of recreational drugs will be able to compete in an above-ground marketplace? A lot of good writers throughout human history under a moderate influence of natural drugs have written imaginative works. True, but entirely irrelevant to the subject at hand.