XPost: alt.drugs, alt.california, rec.drugs.cannabis   
   XPost: alt.activism   
   From: mars1933@hotmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:30:19 +0000, Dr John Watson   
    wrote:   
      
      
   >Are you saying alcohol doesn't harm the brain?   
      
    No, I'm saying it's not a good idea to have pot on the shelves of   
   stores. The country would go down the tubes faster than it is now.   
      
   >   
   >"In-patient care for people who have mental health or behavioural   
   >disorders resulting from alcohol misuse, has also increased significantly,   
   >rising to126,300 admissions in 2004-05, from 72,500 in 1995-96 (75 per   
   >cent over the ten years)."   
   >   
   >   
   >The current generation of baby-boomers are pot heads. I'm a baby boomer   
   >myself (born 1948) and a pot head, first toke in 1968 and I haven't had   
   >my final toke yet.   
      
    And your not a doctor or anything probably.   
      
   >   
   >You have a lot of pot heads, especially in the USA, you are the world   
   >leaders in pot use. I read that Barack Obama is a pot head.   
      
   >   
   >Rubbish. Weed is available on the shelves of coffee shops in Holland and   
   >the Dutch use less weed than the USA (and UK), per capita.   
      
    A liberal probably figured the statistics.   
      
   >   
   >Pot was legal until 1928(UK). There were hashish bars in New York in the   
   >19th century. It's been used for 1,000s of years. A 2,700 years old stash   
   >was recently found in China.   
   >   
    No doubt it became illegal for good reasons. We don't need to go   
   backward as a society.   
      
      
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