XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   R. Mark Clayton wrote:   
   > Criminalising drugs that lead to compulsive use was not "immoral idiocy",   
   > quite the reverse, however legalising them might be a pragmatic way to   
   > reduce the crime associated with addicts funding their addiction, given that   
   > eradication is struggling.   
      
   	The crime associated with the black market in those drugs is   
   worse even than the crimes which may associated with some of the   
   users of various drugs who are attempting to get money to pay for   
   the drugs that they feel they must use.   
      
   >   
   > Compare Chinese attempts to kill all their rats...   
      
   	Very bad taste to compare human drug users with our distant   
   cousins the rat  or the folly of attempting to exterminate pests with   
   the attempts to suppress the use of any drug.  We would do better   
   to exterminate Prohibitionists who insist on interference with other   
   pleasures than to attempt to suppress drug use.   
      
   >   
   > "John Watson"  wrote in message   
   > news:7gesfiF2otng7U1@mid.individual.net...   
   >> Good article by Simon Jenkins in The Guardian.   
   >>   
   >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/03/drugs-pro   
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   	bliss   
      
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