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To: carranza2 who wrote (78380)	2/28/2003 3:41:05 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

Carranza, it's all part of the smothering process. Legalizing the drugs without being prepared to watch the useless go down the drain will create a vast problem. I suppose that's what happened with legalized heroin in Britain [I don't recall that episode]. Like Saddam, they'll try the community on to see if they can get the drugs and the free services - that's the nature of dictators and takers. They know no bounds but death. Nature doesn't mess around with second chances. A mentally disturbed young man climbed into a tiger's cage in Wellington a couple of days ago and the tiger, not surprisingly bit him a lot and left him nearly dead before the keepers could get the tiger away. There are many more [I think they exclude the mentally ill from the awards]http://www.darwinawards.com If somebody goes parachuting and hasn't packed their parachute properly, nature doesn't give them another chance. Acceptance of dopey people is part of the culture. They play on it. If they were facing tigers, cliffs and free fall, there would be far fewer of them take up the game. It's all good fun when playing the drug game. It's the big-noters who seem to be full of dope and coke. They think they are big deal - having arrived, they need something to do to play the arrived game. Coke is cool. Drugs show one is above the common herd with their boring prosaic lives. The check into the Betty Ford centre and have a lot of fun, meet new people, swap terrible stories about their drug addictions. They treat their addiction as though it is a disease separate from them - but quite a fun one in a way. It gives them social context. That's my theory anyway [subject to change without notice], Mqurice PS: The point is, the UN should be reconstituted [King George II is working on that I hope], they should ditch the marijuana and drugs stuff - leaving that to nations to sort out, and deal with political messes like Tibet, Taiwan, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, weapons of mass destruction [the USA, USSR, China, India, Israel, Pakistan, Britain and France have still not provided verification that their weapons of mass destruction have been decommissioned]. Mere possession of nuclear weapons shows criminal intention because they can only be used to blow up a lot of people at one time, as shown at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But as with legalizing heroin, until the overall rules are changed, it's silly to ask people to decommission their nukes when it's a dog eat dog world. Opium, heroin, cocaine and marijuana used to be legal and they weren't a problem other than to those who used them. We didn't have collateral damage like people being shot down when flying their light aircraft, minding their own business, doors being kicked in by narco squads having a lot of fun and shooting the wrong people. Old Chinese men used to sit down Greys Avenue in Auckland, sucking opium. Nobody cared. They didn't hurt anyone. Why hassle them? Very few people copied them [it wasn't attractive until given the cool cache of being antiestablishment].