XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: pxhxz@cadence.com   
      
   In article  "Aidy"  writes:   
   >"TimB"  wrote in message   
   >news:6b602988-7674-4d25-9830-189dbf7affbb@l2g2000vba.googlegroups.com...   
      
   >> I prefer to buy from a supplier who can safely print on   
   >> the packaging exactly what is in the product I'm about to consume   
      
   >Well say goodbye to that when all drugs go straight to market as no-one will   
   >know what is in them, what their active ingedients are, what safe limits   
   >are, what they will react to or anything.   
      
   Eh?  What the hell are you talking about.   
      
   If you buy drugs on the street they have no labeling at all, and you have no   
   idea what's in them.   
      
   If you buy drugs from a chemist they have a long list of active and inactive   
   ingredients and proper doses for various ages and many list possible side   
   effects and warnings about what sort of people should avoid taking them, etc.   
      
   At least that's true in the US.   
      
   Are you trying to tell me that packaged drugs in a UK chemist's shop have   
   absolutely no indication of contents, ingredients, dose, etc.?   
      
   Even packaged food here has a list of ingredients, nutrients, percentage of   
   saturated fat, etc.   
      
   >> Caffeine   
      
   >I believe there are legal limits of how much caffeine a product can contain   
   >in the UK.  It's why those scenes of people "hyper" after a coffee on   
   >American shows are quite alien to use and why "ProPlus" is little more than   
   >a placebo.   
      
   You can't buy No-Doz or other caffeine pills in the UK?   
      
   >It's nothing to do with what I want.  I'm just trying to explain to people   
   >why "make drugs legal" will never really work on a practical level.   
      
   And you are failing miserably.   
      
   -Pete Zakel   
    (phz@seeheader.nospam)   
      
   "If, instead of 95 percent of all inmates in New York being black and   
    Hispanic, half were white, somebody long ago would have said, `What are you   
    doing?  You can't lock up the youth of America.'"   
      
   			-Dr. Robert Newman of Beth Israel, commenting   
   			 on the racism of the US war on drugs   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)