On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:35:39PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Another lesson learnt here: stay off the pot. At a later age you > will not be able to count past 4. :-) just couldn't help it.
I haven't touched it for 5 years, once I realized I'm still same old boring me with it or without it :-) I have mixed feelings. One the one hand, I read about China's opium wars in the 1800s, and see a failed people resulting from "legalizing it." On the other hand, I see a drug which causes people to fight, crash their cars, and beat their kids (alcohol) completely normalized. I think the right answer is to legalize it, but, just as you are considered a drunk and a loser if you drink before work, habitually, or to excess, exactly the same with dope. Folks in Amsterdam have the correct attitude: they mix tobacco with grass because it cuts down on the smell and doesn't get you so whoppered. Exactly like we don't drink pure grain alcohol. I really think the "severe moderation, low concentration, but it's okay for adults" message is the correct message for drugs. It is totally hypocritcal to encourage this message for one drug but not others, when any drug to excess requres counseling, but adults in moderation can manage. I've never heard anybody put the issue like this in public yet. I have hope we can grow up about it, yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
