From: "Ray D"
Subject: Reality v Law
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:33:18 +0100


 >Professors attack illegal drugs rating system
 >http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1762060,00.html
 >The head of the Medical Research Council has attacked the 
 >classification of illegal drugs as arbitrary and illogical.

 >Colin Blakemore, also a professor of physiology at the 
 >University of Oxford, told MPs on the science and technology 
 >select committee that LSD, magic mushrooms and ecstasy should 
 >not be in class A, the most severe category.

 >"Not all the evidence was taken into account in the original 
 >classifications and subsequent evidence has not been well 
 >incorporated," he said.

 >John Strang, a professor of addiction research, called the lack 
 >of research in the area "an embarrassment".


   Ha!  Let's have a reality-check

   If ordinary folk like to do it it's effectively illegal (for generations
   it was effectively illegal for ordinary folk to place a bet on a horse-race,
   with millions of police-hours spent arresting bookies and their `runners')

   If the elite want to do it it's effectively legal - Queen Victoria snorted
   cocaine, drank opium extract (with her whiskey); even today members of elite
   _don't_ get jailed for their hard drug use (while ordinary folk get locked
   up for using herbs).

   cheers
   Ray D

"Can we truly expect that those who aim to exploit us can be trusted to educate us?"
- Eric Schaub

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