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From: mading@puff.UUCP (Eric Mading)
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Subject: Re: Urinalysis...Lie Detectors...all th
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Date: Sat, 3-May-86 14:05:17 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  3 14:05:17 1986
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In article <633@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, cda@ucbentropy.UUCP writes:
> >  I would like to say that the government makes drugs illegal based on
> >their addictive power.  Marijuana, cocaine, LSD, heroin, and speed are illegal
> >because these drugs are addictive to most people.  Alcohol and caffiene are not
> >addictive to most people so they are legal.  It is a fact that marijuana stays
> >in the bloodstream for nearly a month, so one hit of marijuana will keep you
> >high for an entire month.  Since this would keep an employee under its influencethis long, I would not hire anyone who smokes pot.
> >
> >				       Eric Mading
> >				       Computer Science Department
> >				       UW-Madison
> >
> Nicotine is supposedly more addictive than heroin - why isn't it illegal?
Nicotine is more addictive than heroin and cocaine put together.  And it 
should be illegal.

Eric Mading
Computer Science Department
UW-Madison

Disclaimer:  I feel that this article should not have a disclaimer,
even though these views are not necessarly those of UW-Madison.