XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs
From: Blah@hotmail.com
Svenne wrote:
> 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
You seem to have an obsession with me Svenne, are the voices talking to
you again?
What exactly is YOUR problem, were you beaten by an alcoholic father?
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