Pubdate: Wed, 19 Dec 2007
Source: Irish Independent (Ireland)
Copyright: Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd
Contact:  http://www.independent.ie/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/213
Author: Chris Buors

DRUGS MESSAGE IS MISSING THE POINT

Warning people that the "drugs are bad" is a message  that is not 
getting through.

Has it struck the editors that the people who are doing  the drugs 
don't trust the messenger since all they see  published are lists of 
statistics from the Government?

The death toll is soaring because the people are kept  ignorant in 
order to save souls rather than lives.

During alcohol prohibition, adulterated drugs killed  and blinded people.

At least the papers of the time didn't pull any punches  in drawing a 
straight line from prohibition to  adulterated drink.

After all, they could have become victims of  prohibition too. There 
is a direct correlation to be  made in that street drugs the world 
over are of unknown  purity, made with who knows what, who knows where.

Repealing drug prohibition and making all that  soul-destroying stuff 
available down at the pharmacy  would save a lot of lives.

Human beings can recover from an addiction, they can't  recover from 
criminal convictions or death.

To this day I have not heard a reasoned argument about  why drugs 
need to be prohibited or proscribed. The  government has no more 
right to control what free men  put in their bodies than the 
government has right to  control what ideas free people put in their 
own heads. Check out Santa's grotto, listen to wonderful 
Cork  Choirs, visit Christmas stalls.

CHRIS BUORS

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA
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