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Re: From Harry Browne
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Date: 
Fri, 24 Nov 2000 16:22:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:

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.

Love is a drug and I need a fix! - Roxy Music

Certain substances, though, have an undeniable behavior-altering aspect and
can be distinguished from things like sugar.

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!)



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  Re: From Harry Browne
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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