🚀 go-pugleaf

> [snipped to one item for a personal rant]
>
>
> BTW, I heard the other day that legal prescription drugs kill 10 times
more
> people every year than illegal street drugs. 10 frickin' times. Ain't that
> charming?
>
Hmmm, where did you get that stat... I would be curious as to how people use
prescription drugs vs. illegal drugs, and how much of each, I would hazard a
guess that at least 10 times more prescription drugs are used that illegal
street drugs.  Also I would be curious how they defined death by
prescription drugs. E.g.,  If a patient w/ cardiac disease is given a blood
thinner that isn't strong enough, and the patient dies did s/he die because
of the prescption drug?

> Sounds to me like the "war on drugs" would be a lot more beneficial if it
> was aimed at reckless pharmaceutical companies and physicians instead of
pot
> farmers.

I happen to opposed to the war on drugs myself, but I suspect taht it would
be equally fruitless sent against the targets you suggest.

And 'mericans wouldn't even have to travel outside their borders to
> wage war. But what fun would that be? Bwwwaaa haaa... yeah, I'm dreamin'
of
> course. There's waaaay too much money in the legal drug trade, so
hipocracy
> reigns. Keep on rockin' in the free world.
>
> Anyone besides me suspect that Aspirin would be illegal if it grew on a
> house plant? (I guess I'd better not mention anything about wolf willow.)

No, it wouldn't be illegal in that case, though Aspirin would be illegal if
it grew in a houseplant AND gave you a high, but anything that gives you a
high would be illegal (the exception being alcohol and cigarettes of course
which have the luxury of what is basically a grandfather clause). I'm not
saying its a good way to determine the illegality of a substance, but it is
the one we presently use in our country.

>
> OK, I'm gettin' carried away. This Fair Trade coffee really packs a
> wallop...
>

Speaking of which, by the unnatural high standard, coffee also would
probably be illegal because of the caffeine.

Daniel