[Vision2020] Failed Drug Policies from Nixon to Bush

[lfalen]

I would agree with you on this, particularly meth.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:49:36 -0800
To: Matt Decker mattd2107 at hotmail.com,  philosopher.joe at gmail.com, vision2020 at moscow.com,  donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com, garrettmc at verizon.net
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Failed Drug Policies from Nixon to Bush

> 
> Matt Decker asks:
> 
> "Which ones are you against, and why?"
> 
> The drugs that I would NOT legalize are crack (unneutralized, free-base 
> cocaine), ecstasy, methamphetamine, and heroin.
> 
> Crack permanently scars the human nervous system.
> 
> Ecstasy is a synthetic (home-made) hallucinogenically stimulating 
> psychedelic that tends to, if use evolves to heavy addiction, permanently 
> distorts the user's sense of reality, space, and time. 
> 
> Methamphetamine is one of the (if not THE) most addictive, lethal drugs 
> available that causes permanent, irreparable damage to the nervous 
> system.  Further, the chemicals and processes used in the manufacture of 
> methamphetamine are independently lethal in their own right.
> 
> Heroin is considered to be the worst of addictive drugs because it can be 
> cut and mixed with other drugs such as crack.
> 
> Matt Decker stated:
> 
> "From past experience, it is not necessarily the drug itself that causes 
> the overall harm. Although some can cause more of an immediate impact to 
> the physical aspect, but more rather, what the drug does to your mental 
> state."
> 
> Huh?!?!?
> 
> Do I understand you to mean, Matt, that it is not the drug that is 
> dangerous, but what the drug does that is dangerous?
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> 
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