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- From: cd741@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Paul Andarti)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: legalization in Britian
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 13:58:50 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, mjharris@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Harris) says:
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- >petersen@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jim Petersen) writes:
- >Well since the vast majority of people take drugs everyday the problem
- >would seem to me to be that of convincing Americans that some of the drugs
- >which are currently illegal are not as harmful as they believe, or in some
- >cases harmless or even beneficial. This is *not* an easy task. Given the
- >current state of hysteria the only people who will believe this are long
-
- I must disagree here. I think the important thing is the convince the
- public that the government has no right to tell them what they can and
- can't do to their bodies.
-
-
- >htime users of these drugs who *are* the proof and few people will believe
- >them. I was recently told by the best known psychiatrist in Houston, TX
- >that it is *not* unusual for people two go insane by trying LSD one time.
- >This is the accepted medical wisdom. He also told me that Marijuana was
-
- But it is also "accepted medical wisdom" that both cigarettes and
- alcohol are harmful yet I don't see the public crying out for
- prohibition.
-
- >very harmful and could make you less intelligent. I'm sure he honestly
- >believes this and it does no good to call everyone who disagrees with your
- >position on drug legalization stupid or conspirators of some kind. These
- >are good honest people. Subtle but constant persuasion is the best. Point
- >out the counter example, gently educate people to the great literature of
- >psychedelic mysticism from Aldous Huxley, William Blake yes even Leary can
- >help. Don't give up but realize that things are not going to change right
- >away. Pushing too hard always has the opposite effect from what the pusher
- >is trying to achieve and the truth has a way of somehow coming out.
-
- I'd like to be this optimistic but I think the truth has more
- to do with the money being made by keeping certain things
- illegal and other things legal than it does with morality.
- >
- >
- >--
- P.
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