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From: mading@puff.UUCP (Eric Mading)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Urinalysis...Lie Detectors...all th ( really drug safety )
Message-ID: <886@puff.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-May-86 14:12:34 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  3 14:12:34 1986
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In article <2090@ism780c.UUCP>, tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
> In article <287@gumby.UUCP> mading@gumby.UUCP (Eric Mading) 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.
> 
> I have never heard any evidence that LSD is addictive, except that it
> can be fun.  But so can books, movies, sex, and computers.  Do you call
> these addictive?
> 
> I think that there would be less of a drug problem in this country if the
> schools would tell kids the truth about drugs.  Instead, they try to make
> every drug sound like the ultimate in evil.  This may prevent some people
> from trying drugs, but I suspect it causes more trouble in the long run.
> 
> If someone tries a drug and finds out that it is not like they said it
> was in school, that person may then decide that *everything* they said
> in school about drugs was wrong, and then try bad drugs, such as heroin.
> 
You have some good points there.  The reason they make every drug sound
like the ultimate in evil is that the teachers are using their personal
bias when they tell us that every drug is the ultimate in evil.  Besides,
there are drug pushers who make every drug sound like the ultimate in good,
so the only way the school can balance them out is to make every drug sound
like the ultimate in evil.

Now while I feel that I can't prove that LSD is addictive, someone obviously
will someday.  And I do consider books, movies, sex, and computers addictive,
but these are addictive positively.  Drugs and criminal behavior are addictive
negatively.
> Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim