Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Drugs are already legal. Tobacco, alcohol, codeine, Valium, Prozac, amphetamines, morphine and diamorphine, all available over the counter or by prescription, what's the difference? I agree with Ross.
Not a moral stance, I grant you, but a pragmatic one.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
There is much to be said for pragmatism. Morality doesn't come into it for the user, only for the big players who never get caught. If you look at UK society a couple of hundred years ago, people were saying the same sort of things about Gin. Imagine being banged up for a G&T!!!
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Having lived in Saudi Arabia for many years, Bern, I can admit I came close a few times.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Peter, the topic was about cocaine, not tobacco, alcohol or driving cars!
Cocaine is not legal, where-as eating too many chocolate cakes can be harmful.
But let's rather keep to the reality of the thread, as it isn't really something to take lightly.
Dancing is alritght, you tap your feet on the ground, there is a contact with a material floor, but dancing barefoot on burning coals and pointing pins is not ok.
That's the comparison I make between the original topic of the thread, concerning cocaine, and drinking a can of beer.
Perhaps a research into the effects of cacaine would be helpful.
Plenty of research into the effects of all those substances. News Flash - they are all harmful.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Sorry, Bern, I can't follow the gist.
The thread was about cocaine consumption in Scotland, England and Wales. I mentioned the need for increased border controls, as the drug is imported illegally.
If there is a need to post about the consumption of alcoholic drinks in Blakes, or smokiking Olde Holborne while drinking a can of cider as I do, should this not be on another thread?
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I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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I was trying to distinguis, Peter, between one problem, namely cocaine consumption in Britain, which is illegal, and many other problems that have no relation to it.
What shocked me with the opening verse of the thread was the high number of people in this Country addicted to cocaine (which does not include weed, ecstasy or others).
To confornt the problem, one can't do it by dragging in other unrelated problems that each have their own background and reality. That way one won't solve or diminish any problem.
Okay, it's official. I give up.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson