http://members.tripod.com/~Tox/chemtrails.htm

Let's arm some pissed-off Rastafarians! They can start
by liberating Venice Beach. Man, we can dream, can't
we?

Lehder, you talk about chemtrail Xs in the sky. Are you
referring to vapor trails? Or Roundup purchased at a
discount bulk rate for perfuming Columbians?

AOCP, you nailed it. Goddammit, I want to hear
lawmakers finally answer the obvious question -- why
not make nicotine a Schedule III drug like Cannabis?

There's no conceivable answer that wouldn't reveal
their abject hypocrisy and the corrupt agenda of the War
on Some Drugs.

In which the author asserts that Canadians are becoming
more tolerant of cannabis because our politicians are
sending the wrong message by regulating medicinal
cannabis.

The reality is, our politicians were, as one judge
put it "dragged kicking and screaming" by the courts
into creating a regulatory system for medicinal
cannabis.

The politicians are being influenced by the public, the courts and the press.
See 'The Media on Drug Policy in Canada'
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/publications/onbalance/1998/june/

Even though a majority of Canadians still believe that
cannabis is as or more harmful than tobacco and alcohol,
a majority favour decriminalization. Note also that
a mere 11% cite fear of the law as a reason to abstain.

What all of this suggests to me is that, contrary to
prohibitionist dogma, people may fear and disapprove
of cannabis while at the same time recognizing that
criminalizing cannabis users is a solution worse than
the problem.

Matt

Translation: prohibition is the better solution. Sheesh.
All you had to do was say so. However, i thought you
guys knew this:

About the same proportion of respondents -- 76 per
cent -- believed smoking cigarettes daily to be
damaging to health.

Whoa! Stop the presses! Smoking cigs is linked directly
to death! My only question?: WHY AREN'T THE
DRUG WARRIORS CALLING FOR ITS PROHIBITION IF
THE SYSTEM WORKS SO DAMN WELL FOR
CANNABIS?!? (yea, i know it's a rhetorical
question, but it's the hypocrisy i'd like to expose)

Check this out: Three-quarters of people surveyed
by the pollster considered taking an ecstasy tablet even
once or twice to be harmful.

Same as for cigs and based on research of the polled?
Chance not. And if this is true, i've been "harmed"
irrevocably ... oops.

Dubbed the "hug drug" because of the warm
feelings it produces, ecstasy -- often taken at all-night
dance parties -- can lead to severe dehydration and
life-threatening heat stroke. Early research suggests it
may also cause brain damage.

Well, you can deal with dehydration (severe or not) and
help heat stroke all by doing what you do all day
anyway!: drink more water!! But what if they tell the kids
this? That'd send the wrong message or somes***, so
it's better to let them get closer to death, so the antis
can sleep better at night, knowing they can increase the
unnecessary risks any time they want to.

Perhaps not surprisingly, 95 per cent felt that
injecting highly addictive drugs such as heroin and
cocaine on a regular basis caused harm. Almost as
many -- 90 per cent -- considered injecting these drugs
just once or twice to be damaging.

And yet, cocaine has legitimate medical purposes, and
heroine is a close analog of morphine, an opiate well
known for its painkilling applications.