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Subject: Re: Mescaline (Re: The War on Drugs-1 year old today)
Message-ID: <1934@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 01:31:35 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 31 01:31:35 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Nov-87 10:44:11 EST
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Reply-To: anderson@vms3.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
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Keywords: Just say NO to drugs, YES to life.
Summary: Saying yes to life sometimes means doing drugs

In article <1184@puff.wisc.edu> mading@puff.wisc.edu (Eric Mading) writes:

]It is just sad that some intelligent netters
]who want drugs like LSD legalized so they can use the drug 
]without fear of going to jail have no real life.  

Eric, my lad, you are a complete fool.  I don't think I've ever run
into anyone on the net who thought less before opening his/her mouth
than you do.  Have you no shame at all?

]If they were to die right now, few would mourn theirdeath because
]they never lived. 

That is insensitive nigh on to being immoral.

]As for me, who gets high on life without most
]chemicals, I will be missed when I pass on to heaven.  

Well, I wouldn't recommend chemicals for you, but I suspect
someone, somewhere would miss you (possibly not on the net :-).
Heaven doesn't suggest itself as your most likely destination,
however.

]That is because I am
]LIVING.  Those who use drugs are not living, they are just EXISTING.  

Give us a break, airhead!  You have no idea what you're saying!

]The real answer is low-cost treatment, education, and better enforce-
]ment of our borders to keep drugs out.

Somewhere along the line we have to try to teach you something.  Low-
cost treatment and education would surely help our drug problems, and
so would decriminalization, which you're against.  But the lack of
quality to your thoughts is sticking out in that last part, isn't it?
Enforcement of *what* borders?  Surely you don't think the "bad" drugs
are imported?  I grew up in the town containing the world's largest
distillery, and it would be cruel and inhumane treatment to force
any native of Peoria to remain there!

]Disclaimer: I don't speak for my University.

Thank Hera for that!  I mean, the standards are going noticeably
downhill that we let you in here, but so far they haven't sunk to the
point where you're our representative looney!


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