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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (7189)	10/4/1998 11:26:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

At this time, I don't feel like expending effort learning about the joys of hemp, etc. I was not asking you to expend effort learning about the joys of Hemp. As I stressed, I myself have never used Hemp (let alone "etc."), and so have never experienced its joys. I was asking you to expend effort reading about the ridiculously severe penalties imposed on people who do like to taste those joys. I was hoping that you might feel some compassion for somebody who has a habit you disapprove of, but who has committed no "crime" against anyone else. Not even during Prohibition were alcohol users subjected to such penalties. As for your concern about the nuclear button and possible pot-smoking in the Oval Office, I would agree it is justified if you fear the President would be too zonked to launch a nuclear attack when the situation demands it (and when might that be??!!). But I would agree that two highballs would be worse than a joint, if you fear the President might launch an unprovoked attack while "under the influence." Note the following: 1) "In both animal and human studies, alcohol, more than any other drug, has been linked with a high incidence of violence and aggression."Seventh Special Report to the U.S. Congress on Alcohol and Health (Secretary of Health and Human Services, January 1990) 2) "Regarding the subjective self-reported effects of marijuana, all indications are that the effects classically described as being related to aggressive behavior and the commission of crimes --- feeling angry, frustrated, wanting to hurt someone, being willing to follow any and all suggestions of others, being deranged, wanting to do something violent --- have no empirical support whatsoever; users consistently describe these "effects" as non-existent or as extremely rare and atypical. In fact, precisely the opposite is the case: if anything, the effects of marijuana would have far more to do with reducing the criminal impulse, whatever that might be, due to the fact that they tend to be in the direction of relaxation, feeling calm, of not wanting to move about, feeling somewhat drowsy, sleepy. Activity of any sort tends to be inhibited by the marijuana intoxication. From "Marihuana: The Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse," Commissioned by President Richard M. Nixon, March, 1972.