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   From: pxhxz@cadence.com   
      
   In article <4efa1a5f-1a65-4852-82b5-e39bc9d1ac85@2g2000prl.googlegroups.com>   
   MagneticEnergy  writes:   
   >So if we took a piss test of everyone entering a jail cell in the   
   >United States, and find that 99% of them will test positive for   
   >marijuana, are you going to still claim that marijuana is "harmless"?   
      
   So if we took a piss test of everyone entering a jail cell in the   
   United States, and find that 99% of them will test positive for alcohol,   
   will you start screaming loudly for alcohol to be banned?   
      
   If we took a piss test of everyone entering a jail cell in the United States,   
   and find that 100% of them are human beings, are you going to call for all   
   human beings in the US to be thrown in jail?   
      
   There is a saying that "correlation does not prove causation".  If 100% of   
   people in prison drink water, does that mean water turns people into   
   criminals?   
      
   Note that it is very unlikely that 99% of those jailed and imprisoned will   
   test positive for marijuana.  But it has been shown that the vast majority   
   of people who use marijuana do not commit crimes at a higher rate than those   
   who do not use marijuana (other than the "crime" of possessing marijuana).   
      
      
   -Pete Zakel   
    (phz@seeheader.nospam)   
      
   "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and   
    the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react.  He   
    seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."   
      
   			-1921 New York Times editorial about   
   			 Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work   
      
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