XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   5trfg6h7 wrote:   
   > "johannes"  wrote in message   
   > news:49D7162E.A976327F@size436464778fitter.com...   
   >> M_P wrote:   
   >>> On Mar 10, 12:05 pm, Dr John Watson    
   >>> wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> The report said prices for illegal drugs had dropped by 10 to 30 percent.   
   >>> The prohibitionists' answer will be that we just need to do more of   
   >>> what's not working. What's the definition of insanity, again?   
   >> 'Not working' doesn't mean: Not working; that's too literal. It just   
   >> means that some drugs might still get through.   
   >   
   > It means that 90% of drugs get through - that is, those drugs   
   > that are imported. The ones that are home grown (weed, salvia,   
   > mushrooms, synthetics) of course never face the hurdle of   
   > having to pass borders.   
   >   
   >> Enforcement hasn't failed. Try smuggling drugs into far East countries,   
   >> and it's well know that you lose your life at the gallows or firing squad.   
   >   
   > Who would smuggle drugs INTO the Far East?   
   >   
   > They have enough opium, weed and anything else to last   
   > them a lifetime.   
   >   
   > Prohibition is an abject failure, fighting drugs is like fighting   
   > the plant world.   
      
   	The far east is not a nation but a geo-political melange   
   of governments including places like Singapore or Saudi Arabia   
   where such severe penalties obtain.  Taking drugs as mild as   
   cannabis or as strong as alcohol across a Muslim border is only   
   allowed to the uppermost class in society.   
      
   .     SA executes any poor folk that try to mess with the order   
   of their society by bring in drugs or treating women as equals,   
      
   	later   
   	bliss   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)