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From: ooblick@mit-eddie.UUCP
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Subject: Drugs, just say mind your own business
Message-ID: <7174@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 09:06:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: eddie.7174
Posted: Thu Oct 15 09:06:44 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 10:46:30 EDT
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Reply-To: ooblick@eddie.MIT.EDU (Mikki Barry)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <1900@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:

>>I don't approve of drug use.  I believe that alcohol should not be illegal,
>>because it is harmless used in moderation, and why should the majority of
>>Americans be deprived of their daily beer because of the one out of seven
>>who become maniacs when they get drunk.

I don't approve of your not approving of drug use.  Why should the
majority of Americans be deprived of their daily toke because one out
of maybe 100 become stupid when they are stoned?  By the way, at a
recent drug debate, the former head of DEA said that 3500 people
died from drugs last year.  Compare that to over 100,000 who died
on the highways due to alcohol and to 1.3 MILLION who have died due
to nicotine.  I won't even bother to comment on your lack of knowledge
concerning the effects of the drugs you mentioned.

>Also, I think you'll find alcohol doing more damage than pot.

Yes, alcohol KILLS.  Just by using it over a long period of time.  You
don't even have to drive a car or kill your spouce for alcohol to KILL>
Yet do we arrest alcoholics?  No, that would be un-American.
>>However, I think we should just leave our drug
>>laws the way they are.  These netters who are posting that drugs should be
>>legal are drug addicts who should check in to a rehab center.

Oh REALLY?  What a wonderful insight.  I will immediately get myself to
a rehab center so they can flush the beer I had last night out of my system.
Where did you come from?  Planet 10?  You must be a communist.  You
obviously don't know anything about our constitution.  Or do you advocate
that the government come into your house and analyze your shit so they can
see EVERYTHING you put into your system?  Ooooh, it might be CAFFEINE
from Mountain Dew.  Off with his head!

Why don't you go and regulate your own habits before passing judgement on
the rest of us.  Sheesh, go have a cup of coffee and a cigarette.
It is this kind of person who I hope takes Advil before a urine test.

Mikki Barry
"EEEEK Drugs!  Forget the muggers and rapists.  ARREST THAT POT SMOKER!"