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XPost: alt.support.marijuana.medical, alt.hemp
From: Voter@Vote2016.com

The problem with drugs is in the commercial marketing and sale as recreational
impulse items.  They have hard liquor and cigarettes for sale in the checkout
lanes at Walmart.  They have free vodka samples at Vons.  They have wine by the
glass in the checkout lane at Sprouts Market.  Could alcohol be marketed as a
sports drink?  How can it be marketed as a recreational drink?  "Recreational"
drugs - all drugs, should be marketed only for medicinal purposes, and when
sold
by commercial organizations, sold only to those who have passed a several hour
test on the dangers, or have been prescribed them by a physician - who should
recommend they pass the test anyway, while prescribing the drug expeditiously
for
the moment.  Why move to market marijuana as a recreational drug?  Why not at
most
move to sell it, over the counter, to anyone, without prescription, like Advil?
But better, why not also make its sale by a commercial organization, only
allowed
to those who passed a test on intelligent uses, both medicinal and
recreational.
And why not sell it in a separate unmarked store, or with a separate door, out
of
sight, and out of mind, to those with habits.

The problem with drugs is not in the loose cigarettes sold on the street
corners,
or with the use of drugs even in public.  The problem is not with the exercise
of
our human rights and liberties, which should always be held holy and
sacrosanct.
The problem with drugs, is in the marketing and sale by commercial
organizations,
which stands to be tempered and regulated.  But prohibition is no substitute
for
sound and intelligent regulations, no matter how prejudice someone's opinion
may
be. Regulation does not inhibit the ultimate access to an object or activity.
Prohibition does.  And in doing so, begets a market outside the regulations of
the
people.  When no one has been victimized, no crime has been committed.  Drugs
are
not a crime.  But marketing alcohol as a sports drink, or a recreational
beverage,
is ludicrous.  Marketing tobacco as a recreational inhalant, likewise is
ludicrous.  It's your human right to use both as you see fit.  It's your human
right to inhale spray paint if you see fit.  It's your human right to
apparently
harm yourself, as it's no one's right to judge the individual benefits or
costs of
what you are doing to yourself.  But commercial organizations should not be
supported in the advocation of such apparent degeneracies.  What harms another
is
wrong.  What harms oneself is but bad.  The interest of a commercial
organization,
is frequently pure profit.  And the potential harm from the items they sell, to
earn profits, should be minimized, but without prohibition.  Prohibition
leaves us
in poverty.  Prohibition leaves us desperate, and with nowhere to turn for
fulfillment.  Your rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are
insulted by prohibition.

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