[Rhodes22-list] Political - Re. Bill Buckley & drugs - reply to Ed

[Robert Skinner]

Tootle wrote:
> ...
> I know at that time he was a chain smoker, so was he also using funny
> cigarettes or something stronger?

As it turns out, Bill, being curious, accompanied a 
person in possession of some potent MJ out beyond the 
three mile limit and got lit.  I believe that he did 
not suffer ill effect, and came to wonder what all 
the fuss was about.

Personally, I have concluded that the war on drugs 
began as a social war on black musicians, provided an 
opportunity for Ainsley to make political hay with 
ridiculous scare tactics in the '40s, and has 
continued to be fertile ground for politicians since 
then.  

The results, aside from getting even more jerks 
elected to legislatures, have been overcrowded 
prisons and diversion of resources from the essential 
task of protecting life and property.  It could be 
that the artificial scarcity of recreational 
pharmaceuticals has actually increased the real 
crimes of theft and assault.

My Daddy said, "Everyone has the right to go to Hell 
in their own way."  

I add a more Darwinist approach (following Larry 
Niven and Jerry Pournelle's "Oath Of Fealty"): Think 
of drug deaths as "evolution in action", and quit 
financing pushers in the US, drug lords in Central 
and South America, the Taliban in Afghanistan, and 
others who are simply helping us eliminate the weak 
strains in our gene pool. 

OK, Ed - chew on that ultra-conservative manifesto 
for a while.

/Robert