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From: geb@cadre.ARPA (Gordon E. Banks)
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Subject: Re: Brief History of Drug Use and Control
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Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 09:21:51 EDT
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Thanks to Don Steiny for posting the sad history of man's
attempts to legislate morality.  

The number of people who have died to preserve the constitution
and the basic rights it proclaims is far greater than all those
who died of drug abuse to say nothing of their quality.  
Let's not lose sight of what is most precious.

I do not use illegal drugs (or tobacco or alcohol) but feel that adults
have the right to decide what they will use in private as long
as they are not harming others, and that we have the
right not to have our bodies invaded by tests against our will, regardless
of the end these means are supposed to serve.