XPost: alt.education, alt.true-crime, pdx.general
XPost: or.politics
From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net

"nimue"  wrote:

> Lobby Dosser wrote:
>> "nimue"  wrote:
>>
>>> Lobby Dosser wrote:
>>>> "nimue"  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So, you think someone who smokes pot once every few months is just
>>>>> as much a drug abuser as a crackhead who gets  high every single
>>>>> day? For you, what determines a drug's potential for abuse is its
>>>>> status as legal or illegal -- right?  So, I guess by that
>>>>> reasoning, you can't abuse alcohol.
>>>>
>>>> [Drug abuse: the misuse of drugs, alcohol or other substances,
>>>> usually a form of addiction. Law enforcement officials, among
>>>> others, often define drug abuse as "any" use of illegal drugs,
>>>> whether or not use is actually harmful to the user or to anyone
>>>> else.]
>>>
>>> Is that how YOU define it?
>>>
>>
>> Doesn't make any difference how I define it.
>
> I want to know how YOU define it -- that's the difference.  You're
> talking to me and I want to know how you define it.  Dodger.
>

Abuse: Use of a substance to the extent it is harmful to the user or the
user could bring harn to others while under its infuence.

Crime: Use of any amount of any substance defined as illegal.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)