In message 
          Cynic  wrote:

> There is a *huge* difference between activities that harm unconsenting
> 3rd parties and activities that harm nobody who did not undertake the
> activity willingly.  The law should be used *only* to protect people
> from the harmful acts of other people.

Agreed - but the evidence is clear that drug abuse *does* harm other people,
from the idiot who runs amok with a knife to all of us who have to fork out
extra in the NHS budget to pay for the treatment of alcoholics, lung cancer
and heart disease sufferers, paranoid schizophrenics and all the rest.

Ken Down

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On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:43:58 GMT, Kendall K. Down
 wrote:

>In message 
>          Svenne  wrote:
>
>> >> I do not know this Amdo, perhaps he's an alcoholic, alcohol is one of the
>> >> main causes of mental health problems:
> 
>> >Hang around the north Wales newsgroup, you'll encounter him. He may well
>> >have problems with alcohol - he admits to taking just about everything else.
> 
>> I think I've come across him. He's some kind of religious wierdo, some
>> kind of Rasta-Hindu-mystic type who hasn't a clue about religion or
>> mysticism and who thinks any religion is just fine as long as it is
>> third world.
>
>... and involves the use of illegal drugs. That's the guy.
>
>Ken Down

You have posted to a special newsgroup set up by
the the NuLabour Government to plug the gaps created by 
the abysmal failure of the Psychiatric Care in the Community Policy. 
which was implemented by the last Tory Government. This
policy was  not only continued but also expanded by this 
NuLabour Government. 
 
The uk.local hierarchy was devised to provide an outlet for
individuals who would otherwise be spending their days sitting
at home wearing an aluminium foil hat waiting for a full moon
to rise. It was hoped that this would reduce the incidence
of nutters out there howling at the moon and frightening the
shit out of their neighbours. Another of HMGs aims and 
objectives was to provide a distraction to take their minds
of the problem of who they were next going to knife to death.
Unfortunately, this group has been taken over by the 
articulate lower middle classes who have succeeding in 
driving HMGs target audience away. Independent research has
shown that it was the amount and quality of the inane drivel,
called small talk which the middle classes are adept at, which
had the effect of doing their heads in. They left to protect what 
was left of their sanity. This has happened to the whole of uk.local.
hierarchy.  This newsgroup in particular is a very good example 
of another HMG failure

I trust this post will help guide you in your future dealings with this
newsgroup.

Thank you.


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Sacred Sanctuary for Nutters and Idiots.
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In message 
          Cynic  wrote:

> Drugs can also relieve the stress that most people suffer to some
> extent or another.

So pop along to your doctor, explain how stressed you are, and accept his
prescription for some medically tested and approved tranquilliser. *Don't*
just shove the first thing that comes along up your nose or down your
throat.

All your waffle about stress is just so much hogwash. You don't drink or
smoke or snort (or whatever your drug of choice requires) because you are
stressed, but because you want a buzz. If you really did need something for
your digestion and your blood pressure, you would go to a doctor.

> Absolutely.  I would not want to take any action against a person who
> takes a few paper clips or a pen from the office, but I would take
> action against someone who took home half the stock from the
> stationery cupboard.

I would take action against both. Both are thieves.

Ken Down

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