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   XPost: alt.drugs, rec.drugs.smart   
   From: Voter@Vote2016.com   
      
   The problem with drugs is in the commercial marketing and sale as recreational   
   impulse items.  They have hard liquor and cigarettes for sale in the checkout   
   lanes at Walmart.  They have free vodka samples at Vons.  They have wine by the   
   glass in the checkout lane at Sprouts Market.  Could alcohol be marketed as a   
   sports drink?  How can it be marketed as a recreational drink?  "Recreational"   
   drugs - all drugs, should be marketed only for medicinal purposes, and when   
   sold   
   by commercial organizations, sold only to those who have passed a several hour   
   test on the dangers, or have been prescribed them by a physician - who should   
   recommend they pass the test anyway, while prescribing the drug expeditiously   
   for   
   the moment.  Why move to market marijuana as a recreational drug?  Why not at   
   most   
   move to sell it, over the counter, to anyone, without prescription, like Advil?   
   But better, why not also make its sale by a commercial organization, only   
   allowed   
   to those who passed a test on intelligent uses, both medicinal and   
   recreational.   
   And why not sell it in a separate unmarked store, or with a separate door, out   
   of   
   sight, and out of mind, to those with habits.   
      
   The problem with drugs is not in the loose cigarettes sold on the street   
   corners,   
   or with the use of drugs even in public.  The problem is not with the exercise   
   of   
   our human rights and liberties, which should always be held holy and   
   sacrosanct.   
   The problem with drugs, is in the marketing and sale by commercial   
   organizations,   
   which stands to be tempered and regulated.  But prohibition is no substitute   
   for   
   sound and intelligent regulations, no matter how prejudice someone's opinion   
   may   
   be. Regulation does not inhibit the ultimate access to an object or activity.   
   Prohibition does.  And in doing so, begets a market outside the regulations of   
   the   
   people.  When no one has been victimized, no crime has been committed.  Drugs   
   are   
   not a crime.  But marketing alcohol as a sports drink, or a recreational   
   beverage,   
   is ludicrous.  Marketing tobacco as a recreational inhalant, likewise is   
   ludicrous.  It's your human right to use both as you see fit.  It's your human   
   right to inhale spray paint if you see fit.  It's your human right to   
   apparently   
   harm yourself, as it's no one's right to judge the individual benefits or   
   costs of   
   what you are doing to yourself.  But commercial organizations should not be   
   supported in the advocation of such apparent degeneracies.  What harms another   
   is   
   wrong.  What harms oneself is but bad.  The interest of a commercial   
   organization,   
   is frequently pure profit.  And the potential harm from the items they sell, to   
   earn profits, should be minimized, but without prohibition.  Prohibition   
   leaves us   
   in poverty.  Prohibition leaves us desperate, and with nowhere to turn for   
   fulfillment.  Your rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are   
   insulted by prohibition.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)