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To: Mama Bear who wrote (2677)	5/8/1999 11:33:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

Barb, not nothing but... but the rule of law means that we do not get to pick and choose, which is why those who engage in civil disobedience take their medicine... I will believe you about the pharmacological equivalence of heroin and alcohol if you produce a reliable source. Otherwise, I decline... Sugar is a commonly available substance, alcohol is easy to make. If it is so easy to produce opium poppies and coca leaves in this country, why are we dependent upon foreign sources like Medillin? Yeast spores are found in the air, by the way... Circular logic? You simply denied that such laws were warranted, and then complained about the injustice of it all...

To: Mama Bear who wrote (2677)	5/9/1999 1:59:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13056

The real criminals (if there really is such a thing) are the ones who make the laws. THe only law which counts is the law of nature. You can do anything nature allows. It's a farce when people write all of this stuff down in their little books and then tell everyone else, "see, this is how it's going to be." Everyone should consider the conseqences of their actions, before taking such actions. That would be at the crux of a free society. Why is it that humans are so suspect of "God's" judgement that they feel they need to pass judgement on others, themselves? Nature herself is supremely just. FWIW Andy