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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
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Subject: Re: two propositions - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 11:13:01 EST
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I just love the simplistic answers to major problems.  I am going
to leave the first proposition to others so they can jump on it
from whatever direction they wish.  However, the second proposition
could only come from someone with burned out synapse nodes.  Don't
we have enough problems with drunk drivers on our roads without
adding space cadets to the problem?  We are just now getting around
to attempting to get the drinkers off the roads and someone wants
to legalize pot so we can add that problem.

Don't try to give me any of that horse-puckey about pot smokers
having normal reaction times, judgement, etc..  It just ain't so.
All of those arguments have been debunked a dozen times over.
What's next, coke for the masses?  I can see the ads now, "A
line a day will blow your head away."  Nice stuff you are
suggesting.  Legalize pot and you can cut school budgets in
half.  You can just send those students home that are sitting
in their classrooms staring glassy-eyed at the wall.  Enough
of them do it now, why add to the problem?

Grow up. Try getting your highs some other way.  Try jumping out
of airplanes (with a parachute, you only get one high the other
way).  It doesn't take much imagination to find ways to get high on
yourself without resorting to artificial means.  I get one helluva
kick out of latching onto an 18 pound Bluefish in the surf or
playing with my kids.  We already have millions of alcohol abusers
out there, we don't need to double that problem by legalizing pot.

T. C. Wheeler