Boedicia@isp.com wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2:29 am, Ollie Clark  wrote:
>> for quite a while after use but the psychoactive components have gone in
>> a few hours. The metabolites have no effect but are used for detection
>> as noone has developed a test for the actual psychoactive components
>> of cannabis.

I'll take you ignoring that as acceptance that I'm right.

>> >> > Nope. Beer is not illegal.
>>
>> >> > Beer is not classified as a drug officially.
>>
>> >> By whom?
>> >> How about tobacco or coffee are they not "Drugs"?
>>
>> >  No-one ever killed anyone on t he highway by drinking
>> >  coffee, one cannot say the same thing about potheads.
>>
>> I'd like to see some statistics about the number of RTAs caused by
>> cannabis but it's got nothing to do with whether it's a drug or not
>> anyway.

None available eh?

>> >> Ah yes I forgot! America where tobacco is classified as a food so it doesn't have to pass the tests for drugs!
>>
>> >   Tobacco is taxed, food is not.
>>
>> >> Not matter how a government chose to classify a substance and  passing as
>> >> many laws as they like saying it isn't, if it looks like a duck, quacks like
>> >> a duck and flys like a duck, it's probably a duck.
>>
>> >> Trust me on this one - ethanol is a recreational drug.
>> >> (4000 times more dangerous than MJ by LD50 and 20 times by risk of mental illness)
>>
>> >    So why take drugs at all?   Only idiots take mind altering
>> >   drugs in an effort to avoid reality.
>>
>> Have you actually looked outside your front door at what people are doing
>> in the outside world? Plenty of highly intelligent people take drugs because
>> they find it fun.
>
>  Lots of things are fun, however they don;t usually result in
> the kind of mayhem that mind altering cause.

"Mind altering" doesn't usually result in any "mayhem". You're showing
how out of touch you are.

>  Drug taking is deeply embeded in human culture. The only
>> thing that has altered over the millenia is which drugs are acceptable at
>> different times. At the moment it's alcohol and caffeine but both of those  have been illegal drugs at some point. One still is in many places.
>
>  The Evening Standard, 12th. August 2007.
>
>  Read it and weep for that little girl who was murdered by
>  some pothead.  He was charged with murder and if I had my
>  way he should be hanged.

You need a subscription to view it, it looks like. I agree, murderers 
should be locked up. I don't agree that cannabis caused the murder. I
certainly don't agree with the death penalty for any crime.