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   "Blah"  wrote in message   
   news:7dloiqF2cghm2U1@mid.individual.net...   
   > JohnR wrote:   
   >> "Blah"  wrote in message   
   >> news:7dljrmF2apl78U1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>> Svenne wrote:   
   >>>> On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:28:09 +0100, Blah  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Svenne wrote:   
   >>>>>> 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.   
   >>>>> 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?   
   >>>> It's the shite you write I'm commenting on, Blah. You know, the stuff   
   >>>> you are posting on usenet, or have you forgotten. I think you should   
   >>>> worry more about your own problems and lay off the booze for a while.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Svenne   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>> So, lets sum this up - I point out that an illegal drug is causing   
   >>> mental health problems, and most users are quite happy to gloss over any   
   >>> evidence of a problem.   
   >>>   
   >>> And *you* respond with a bitter rant about *my* use of alcohol?   
   >>>   
   >>> How does that work then? Fuckwit.   
   >>>   
   >>> You definitly want to see someone about your paranoia.   
   >>>   
   >> Here's the flaw in your apparent support of prohibition of some drugs,   
   >> presumably only the ones you don't use I might add.   
   >   
   > I have a *particular* vested interest in skunk, since it fried the missus   
   > brains (at least according to me and her shrink).   
      
   Neither you nor your shrink are qualified to say whether cannabis is capable   
   of causing brain damage. Or maybe you didn't mean brain damage. Maybe you   
   meant psychiatric illness. In which case: neither you nor your shrink are   
   qualified to say whether cannabis is capable of causing psychiatric   
   illnesses.   
      
   > And not once have I mention support of prohibition, its it wonderful when   
   > users read what they want from your message.   
   >   
   > I am firmly pro *"don't let users get away with telling everyone how   
   > wonderful it it"*, when it clearly *isn't*.   
      
   I never hear users telling everyone how "wonderful" skunk is.   
      
   However, those who partake of cannabis seem to find it relaxing and   
   pleasant.  A few seem to be troubled by some of the effects. But if you   
   speak to those who are on antidepressants or antipsychotic medicine and a   
   fairly high proportion will complain that these wonderful drugs, prescribed   
   by their doctors, are fucking up their lives in various unpleasant ways.   
      
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