XPost: uk.politics.drugs, uk.legal   
   From: tvaerskaegg@aol.com   
      
   On Wed, 13 May 2009 05:31:47 +0100, Dr John Watson   
    wrote:   
      
   >Noticed at Tue, 12 May 2009 07:08:01 +0000: Svenne informed us:   
      
   >> It is dead easy to justify a ban. Just put a Daily Mail journalist on   
   >> the job for ten minutes and angry mobs will be storming Parliament   
   >> demanding criminalisation with life imprisonment for Qat.   
      
   >> I read a Swedish report on the social effects of Qat a while ago. I'll   
   >> post a brief synopsis of it when and if I get the time to dig it out.   
      
   >I can't understand why they can't just be honest - it's getting high,   
   >stoned or whatever they want to call it that they want to criminalise.   
      
   I don't think they can even talk about conciousness alteration and   
   enhancement. Saying that this is the real reason for the witch hunt   
   and suppression of psychotropic drugs would mean that it would become   
   a parameter of the debate and no such thing can be admitted, so we get   
   a relentless and hysterical barrage of "drugs destroy lives" nonsense   
   instead.   
      
   >The health effects are just an excuse for them. They know it's impossible   
   >to prove that anything at all is 100% safe, and probably nothing is.   
   >   
   >Somebody gets a slight cough on a "drug" - it has to be class A/B/C to   
   >protect The Children (tm).   
   >   
   >Meanwhile, 115,000 people die annually from tobacco, 30,000 the chronic   
   >affects of alcohol, 5,000 the acute effects of alcohol and 110,000 people   
   >hospitalised for mental health problems caused by alcohol. Then there's   
   >the glassings and other mayhem filling the A&E depts every Friday and   
   >Saturday.   
      
   >Crazy.   
      
   Correct.   
      
   Society and a majority of its members are literally insane.   
      
   I won't be around to see it, thankfully, but Homo Sapiens are going to   
   be drastically sorted out by Darwin before this century is over.   
      
   It will definitly not be pretty, but they brought it upon themselves.   
   With a little insight and intelligence things could have been so much   
   different, but I guess .Humans were just not up to the job   
      
   If there's anyone around at the end that would be a good epitaph to   
   erect on the ruins of a destroyed planet:   
      
   "Humans were just not up to the job."   
      
   Svenne   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)