XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   Cynic wrote:   
   > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:30:56 +0100, Gerry    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>> If the drug is not illegal, then it will be sold in normal retail   
   >>> outlets and will carry all the necessary quality assurances and health   
   >>> warnings.   
   >   
   >> You haven't examined many packets of Paracetamol lately have you? Freely   
   >> available over the counter it is the drug of choice for many suicides.   
   >   
   > So?  Using a product to commit suicide is a completely different thing   
   > to using a product to have (what you consider to be) fun.   
   >   
   > You surely would not consider banning everything that could be used to   
   > commit suicide?   
   >   
   > Paracetamol is in any case a very poor method of committing suicide,   
   > because it results in a painful and drawn-out death.  Most suicides   
   > are looking for a quick and painless demise.   
   >   
      
   	All they have to do for that is use enough alcohol fast enough.   
   Several people in the USA manage to do that every year.   
   One of my pals tried it but gave himself away to a friend by moving   
   jewelry into the other person's apartment.  So that act of self   
   destruction was interrupted and he died in a few years of some   
   form of cancer.  But in the time he gained he sobered up and   
   reconciled with his family and even saved his father's life   
   before the cancer showed up.   
      
   	later   
   	bliss   
      
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