To: Sea Otter who wrote (33116 ) 4/14/2008 3:56:29 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217912 The important thing for bossy people like Rolla is to boss other people around, steal OPM and be top chimp. Because they are closely related to chimpanzees, they don't even realize that's what they are doing. They dress it up as something else to hide their naked chimpoid bottoms. They aren't creative and interested in voluntary association and trading. They want to grab and boss. When Great Britain was great and created the most splendid empire in human history with more people enjoying a higher standard of living than ever, opium was legal. People took responsibility for themselves. If they smoked opium, they carried the risk. If people want to poison their brain, that's their business, as long as they do it in their own gutter and don't come bleating to me wanting help when they have fried their brain. Legalize cocaine, opium, marijuana, tobacco, coffee, tea, kava, mushrooms, cacti, datura and other plant poisons and leave people to poison themselves to their heart's content. Without the cachet of being illegal, the incentive to use them will decline. The "cool" factor will go away and the loser factor will be re-established. River Phoenix wasn't using drugs because they were uncool. It was super-hip to be doped up. Only the most exclusive superior people can afford the good stuff and get into the exclusive places. People seem to forget, or don't know, that plants produce their toxins for self-defence against insects and animals. They do that by harming the attackers. If they can make them dopey, then predators will eat them while they are flopping around, cutting down the herbivore numbers. Mqurice