XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: tvaerskaegg@aol.com   
      
   On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:01:01 +0100, Dave J.    
   wrote:   
      
   >In MsgID<2u24751ainklnhusjm623488167pj7df0m@4ax.com> on Thu, 30 Jul 2009   
   >21:20:05 GMT, in uk.politics.drugs, 'Svenne' wrote:   
      
   >>As far as I'm concerned alcohol is the number one head fucker up and   
   >>people destroyer. There aren't many drugs to touch it for that.   
   >   
   >Amphetamine, and (IIRC even more so) Methamphetamine?   
   >   
   >I think the psycholcogical fuckup might weigh heavier from those than the   
   >physical but IMHO the overall total fuckup from consistent abuse is easily   
   >comparable to alcohol and the physical damage on its own is significant.   
      
   >We should be careful before assuming that alcohol is *the worst*. It is   
   >certainly *among* the worst.   
      
   Alcohol still takes some beating for pure destruction of body and soul   
   as well the havoc it can cause to those around. There are many drugs   
   far more benign than alcohol, most, in fact. Hearing Blah bragging   
   about his drinking while trying to claim that cannabis is the really   
   dangerous drug is pretty sick-making. His boozing must have burnt out   
   his brain cells.   
      
   >I would still legalise the lot.   
      
   Yes, all drugs are dangerous in themselves to varying degrees but made   
   many magnitudes more dangerous by prohibition.   
      
   An old boozer like Blah can spend his days stinking of stale alcohol   
   and unrine and boring everyone around, but him and everyone else would   
   be worse off if alcohol were made illegal. The knackered old fart   
   would even be better off all prohibition were ended and he turned to   
   something less destructive than the bottle.   
      
   Svenne   
      
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