XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: Huge@nowhere.much.invalid   
      
   On 2009-04-04, Svenne  wrote:   
   > On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:23:39 +0100, johannes   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>Politically, it's a question of what we want. I believe that the majority   
   >>are happy with the prohibition, to protect the more vulnerable and to   
   maintain   
   >>reasonable standards of trust and well being. I would not deal professionally   
   >>with any person if I knew that he/she was a drug taker.   
   >   
   > What if the drugs the person took were alcohol and tobacco, would you   
   > refuse to deal professionally with them then?   
      
   Thank the Lhord that someone here has a brain, rather than merely shrieking   
   "Drugs bad! Drugs bad!" and running round waving their hands in the air.   
      
      
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   "The study of theology... is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it   
   rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can   
   demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion."   
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