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Re: From Harry Browne
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 24 Nov 2000 14:30:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> The answer, of course, is that YOU should be able to decide what a "drug" is
> for YOU, and how you will handle it, but not for others.
That works if the "drug" user is able to make that determination and if he
doesn't subsequently cause harm to others as a result of that drug use, and
in any case financial/criminal penalties may simply be too after-the-fact to
be of use unless some measure stands in place to prevent such
self-adjudication. Would you, for example, be comfortable undergoing surgery
if, after you were put under, the MD decided he could "handle" a few hits of
LSD before cutting you open? In addition, an addict has lost the ability to
decide how much he can "handle," so his judgment is inherently faulty.
> On a side note "protect my family from drugs"?? So you don't take aspirin,
> penicillin, antibiotics, etc?
Obviously there's no ironclad indicator of what a drug is and isn't, and
if you choose to define it broadly enough, light and air are both drugs.
Certain substances, though, have an undeniable behavior-altering aspect and
can be distinguished from things like sugar.
Dave!
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| (...) Love is a drug and I need a fix! - Roxy Music (...) Clearly you're not thoroughly Sluggish, or else you'd know that sugar is indeed a drug when ingested by ferrets. :-) ++Lar (who didn't go door busting this year and sort of doesn't miss it!) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) And what before the fact control keeps your current doctor from taking an unwise hit of LSD in the current system? Ok, LSD isn't easy to get, but I bet your doctor could get it easier than the average person. There certainly isn't anything (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Ah, but who should decide what "drugs" are? I don't think the government should, they've always made a mess of it - deciding what is Prescription only, Scheduled drugs, over-the-counter drugs, "not really drugs" drugs (for example, nicotine in (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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