Pubdate: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB) Copyright: 2008 Winnipeg Free Press Contact: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/info/letters/index.html Website: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/502 Author: Lawrence Shaver Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n1110/a07.html YOU DON'T SNORT COCA-COLA Re: Stop demonizing cocaine, Dec. 10. I read with interest Chris Buors' continued stubborn stance in opposition to the status quo which is intensive regulation of various drugs, citing his "right to self-medicate." He attempts to reform the criminal database by altering the very definition of crime and its relation to vice. This is legalese of the "get-out-of-jail-free" variety. He correctly identifies this as a fundamental moral (he says Christian) issue. I admit I could not find fault with his impeccable, flawless logic. But reading between lines, it seems he secretly would like to overthrow the government by an armed force of marijuanistas and install himself as dictator of a libertarian-anarchist utopia. This is the perverse basis of all stoner-based "self-defence" criminal psychology. Rebel groups in the paradises he mentions, such as Bolivia and Peru, are financed by the charity of the drug cartels to enforce a reign of terror. You don't snort Coca-Cola until it gives you a bleeding nose. Likewise, Chris is free to make a shopping trip to his local health food store for medicine and ask the clerk for advice, provided he is not seeking narcotics. If he wants dope, he has to go to another part of the mall. Lawrence Shaver Winnipeg - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin