On 7/26/05 2:24 PM, in article usace15488fo7j94368o8crcdui29gh3s3@4ax.com,
"DHP" <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:29:28 +0100, Phil Stovell <phil@stovell.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:26:58 +0000, DHP wrote:
>>
>>> The principle reason people drink themselves into liver disease is because
>>> as a culture we approve of ethanol as an intoxicant and generallly hate
>>> and fear any other more civilised "substance of abuse". Even on the worst
>>> interpretation of the health evidence, cannabis is vastly safer - and I'd
>>> much rather be on the same road as a cannabis-intoxicated driver than a
>>> drunk. When the kids discovered another, reasonably safe, non-addictive
>>> drug with a truly delightful effect, the media played up the dangers, both
>>> real and imaginary. Consequently the kids stopped taking MDMA and are now
>>> rotting their livers in cheap booze and cracking heads open on the
>>> streets.
>>
>> Yes, but drugs ruin lives. We've done our duty and saved our children from
>> the horrors of drugs, every parents' nightmare.
>
> Has anyopne done a survey and correlated pharmaphobia with alcoholism?
>
>
I'll bet there is a strong correlation.
Cops always toast the big drug hauls with booze..until they have to hit AA.
ej
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