XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: pxhxz@cadence.com   
      
   In article  "Aidy"  writes:   
      
   >To sum up...making *current* "recreational drugs" legal won't work as new   
   >ones will come along to take their place.   
      
   Which would be defacto legal.   
      
   >You can't make "all drugs" legal   
   >as new ones that are potentially lethal could come along and be given to the   
   >public with no knowledge of their direct affects or their side affects.   
      
   And doing that should be illegal.   
      
   Just as I can't legally sell you drain cleaner and tell you it's snuff.   
      
   >People can always exercise free choice, you'll never stop that, you'll never   
   >stop people taking substances with very little knowledge of what they're   
   >taking.  It just shouldn't be promoted or encouraged by any civilised   
   >society.   
      
   I'm not saying it should be promoted or encouraged.  I'm just saying that   
   people who take those substances shouldn't be arrested for it.   
      
   How many people who use alcohol actually have much knowledge about what   
   alcohol does to the body and mind?   
      
   -Pete Zakel   
    (phz@seeheader.nospam)   
      
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