In article  Kendall K. Down  writes:
>In message 
>          Mike_B  wrote:

>> My comment was not intended to assess the governments attitude, but 
>> yours. You seem to switch from being totally abolishionist and wanting 
>> to boil coffee shop staff in hot oil, to accepting that drugs are fine 
>> so long as they are distributed according to a law. I am trying to 
>> discover why it matters to you on a fundamental level what the law says, 
>> when the law can change at the whim of any government.

>Law can change - but it would be a strange government indeed that allowed
>harmful drugs free use by every Tom, Dick and Harry. 

Why would that be strange?  I can legally purchase lots of things that are
potentially far more harmful than currently illegal drugs, such as drain
cleaner, rat poison, lawn mowers, chain saws, hatchets, sledgehammers, cement,
spray paint, chemical solvents, etc., etc., etc.

-Pete Zakel
 (phz@seeheader.nospam)

	It's a funny thing - you work all your life toward a certain goal
	and then somebody moves the posts on you.   	         

			    - Herb Caen