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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.rec.drugs
Subject: Re: Inappropriate comments about drugs
Message-ID: <1147@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 00:43:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 29 00:43:38 1986
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References: <439@hp-sdd.UUCP> <1767@well.UUCP> <1528@curly.ucla-cs.ARPA> <1958@videovax.UUCP>
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(I've directed followups to net.rec.drugs, which I suppose we'll
 have to name "talk.drugs" one of these days...)

In article <1958@videovax.UUCP>, stever@videovax.UUCP (Steven E. Rice) writes:
>         ...public perceptions of drug abuse have been warped by the
> Timothy Learys and the other prominent proponents of drugs as recreation.
> Recently, the national mood has begun to shift against drug use as the
> deaths of Len Bias and others great and small have shown the dangers
> inherent in drugs...
> the United States is beginning to face the enormity of the problem.

The only serious problem with drug use is that it is illegal.  It wasn't
illegal in 1900 and the country survived -- and in better style than now.

Isadora Duncan died from riding in a convertible with a scarf on, are 
you going to make convertibles and scarfs illegal because a famous
person died that way?

I don't gauge the "national mood" by what I read in the papers or by
politicians' press releases.  Talk to a few of your friends instead.

Laws will come and laws will go, but drugs are here to stay.
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa
		     May the Source be with you!