RE: [declan@well.com: [Politech] Montana Supreme Court justice warns Orwell's 1984 has arrived [priv]]
Tyler Durden writes:
Yes, but the old question needs to be asked: How much of this crime would go away if crystal meth were legal?
Actually, if we ever managed to kill the culture of prohibition, I suspect that crystal meth would be about as popular is bathtub gin is today. It's terrible stuff. I'd expect the big pharmas to start 'recreational drug' wings, which would bring real research power to the problem of finding highs which are fun, safe, affordable, and with minimal physical addiction. "I need a new drug..." Peter Trei
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 1:39 PM -0400 8/23/05, Trei, Peter wrote:
"I [want] a new drug..."
I would request the irony-impaired actually look up the lyrics of this paen to endogenous ero-endorphins, written by a drug-hating San Francisco "acid-kindergarten" refugee. In the meantime, I'm all for the legalization of meth -- as long as I get to sharpen my Recon Tonto and personally slit the bag of any of the bastids as they cross my windowsill looking for something to steal. Kinda like opening the borders without killing the welfare state first. Okay, maybe our porous borders *will* kill the welfare state, of course, Reagan used unrestrained soviet-killing budget deficits to "kill" the welfare state en passant. He didn't? I mean, Clinton *did* say "...big government is over.", right? Right??? <looks offstage> This thing on? Cheers, RAH The only to "legalize" anything is when progress makes the law superfluous. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.0.2 (Build 2425) iQEVAwUBQwtypsUCGwxmWcHhAQHpDgf/T5q80m2rgc57388eGuvdIq1YttZDMww2 NannlO3JhKbTXQNKuoArDV66++++GPhg9nST3KYWLXI/MyrJllgtNioudkxF/pTU B3ussJXFfHbo3Ya1wgM9P1srQlK6smmamv3oHXY92kqeM5JBWfwG7gybMaC+IKKb nk0YgblOoW2bsXfONjdISXti0ENvkFIMrLxajoWVXSAp1exDOCJPqLSxbKnX2DNd ftBNYO8h9tt/qr6KRhBZsY449Vs1g1CMVigdVy6h7y9WBlhRWCMjJF/pfnJWbQJm a4f9H/XjNntHVr+Z0UZnthj0Va2RKKm99CKTFS+7fypDlEfslq/W3A== =vsGf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Supposedly, the tobacco companies have had commercial marijuana products ready forever (I've even seen photos, but I always suspected they were doctored up stoner's dreams). The idea that the pharmaceutical companies would start actively researching new designer drugs is fascinating and scary...wait, scratch that "scary", because it can't be scarier than drug-related crime in the US. The New York Times Magazine had a fascinating story years back on the US's marijuana industry. it's apparently the #2 export crop and US pot technology is in some cases extremely, uh, high. They described growers with strings of apartments in various US states connected with sesnors to the internet. If any of the apartments showed signs of entry, the grower would never return. (Each apartment supposedly had low levels of crops to fly under certain state laws if they were ever caught.) No doubt some of those growers are good customers of RSA products! -TD
From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com> To: "Tyler Durden" <camera_lumina@hotmail.com>, <cypherpunks@minder.net>, <coderman@gmail.com> Subject: RE: [declan@well.com: [Politech] Montana Supreme Court justice warns Orwell's 1984 has arrived [priv]] Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:39:17 -0400
Tyler Durden writes:
Yes, but the old question needs to be asked: How much of this crime would go away if crystal meth were legal?
Actually, if we ever managed to kill the culture of prohibition, I suspect that crystal meth would be about as popular is bathtub gin is today. It's terrible stuff.
I'd expect the big pharmas to start 'recreational drug' wings, which would bring real research power to the problem of finding highs which are fun, safe, affordable, and with minimal physical addiction.
"I need a new drug..."
Peter Trei
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