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To: Neocon who wrote (296176)	9/12/2002 3:38:03 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The impairment of motor skills and judgement by even one drink is easily measured - and results of scientific testing have been peer-reviewed and reproduced around the world... they are not in question. "obviously drunk" has little to do with it. Re: "In any event, alcohol differs from most drugs because of the ease with which it can be manufactured, and its longstanding integration into our social rituals." >>> You are arguing that if humans have been using it long enough (apart from any judgements about the harmfullness of use), that it is OK? ... And some drugs don't even need to be 'manufactured' at all, they are grown... which is even easier. >>> I would only point out that some other drugs have been used by humans as long, or even longer (I think any use in excess of 5,000 years should count, don't you?). >>> Some perhaps even longer than homo sapien sapiens have been striding the planet :)