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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (7208)	8/13/2007 8:05:33 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25737

Re: "Two requirements must be met for a drug to be on schedule I: 1. The drug must have a high potential for abuse and 2. There can be no acceptable medical usage currently in the US." Correct. I hear 'ya. (But that doesn't mean that the politicians can't ignore the truth for as long as they want to --- as I'd argue they already are --- and keep the current illogical and dishonest policy locked-in for a long, long time....) Current policy serves the interests of Big Government... because it ENABLES big, Authotitarian government and individuals' loss of liberty. "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." --- H. L. Mencken "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws." --- Ayn Rand "The greatest threats to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." --- Justice Louis Brandeis, 1928