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- From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
- Subject: Re: "U.S. Drug Laws Clash With Somali Tradition"
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:16:21 GMT
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- In article <Fu4kwB1w165w@qed.cts.com> marsthom@qed.cts.com (Mark Thompson) writes:
- >If Khat is illegal in the US, it's a stupidly xenophobic policy:
- >criminalizing Khat while allowing 75mg tablets of purified ephedrine to
- >be sold over the counter with no age limit doesn't make much sense.
- >It would be like making coffee beans illegal while No-Doz was still
- >promoted on national television.
- Welcome to AmeriKa and its War on Some Drugs, Rip. Whew, glad
- you woke up when you did. Twenty years of snoring is hard to take. ;-)
- I don't mean to be rude but you mean it just dawned on you that
- the WOSD is a cultural war? Didn't the fact that a relatively
- mild and non-toxic drug like Marijuana is illegal and alcohol
- with its well known toxicity is legal tell you anything before
- khat came along?
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- smg
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