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

To: Dayuhan who wrote (14230)	5/24/2001 3:40:02 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"Your good and my good, perhaps they are different, and either forced good or forced evil will make a people cry with pain." Feisal - Reasons of the Revolt - Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence And really Steven, where in the ten commandments does it say anything about legal or illegal drugs. After all our society is basically a Christian nation. "Drugs designed" are synthetic and manufactured by large companies with government patents and a wide base of shareholders that pay taxes. That has more influence on the legality of drugs than the morality. "...society on the whole, disapproves of the idea of recreational drugs;" I'll assume you mean SI society. Legal drugs such as Viagra cause lots of fun hopefully for the user. "... drugs sold for recreational purposes have few significant therapeutic applications" I could post 10,000 links that contradict that! "... booze companies would be hit hard." So? They are just pushing another type of drug. They will probably diversify and invest in a profitable new industry. Your suggestion that marketers of synthetic drugs would have to compete in the recreational market, I reject. They are all competing in the same market. The only difference is a lot of lives are wasted and a lot of money is spent building jails. I don't respect a drug pusher with a seven year medical degree anymore than some hood on the street. It's a question of your honesty and the system honestly doesn't work. Legalize it, tax it and forget about it. Really what difference does it make if some China man wants a hit of opium after working all day instead of two fingers of Scotch.