From: tcmay@got.net

(In response to my sig statement):

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I hope I'm not the only one here who thinks so.

How could you be? Since I was the one who cited the example, I clearly am opposed to the current monopoly on judgment the FDA enjoys. ....................................................................

Yes. I know. I am on the infamous Anarcho-Capitalist Cypherpunk List. But I am sending mail from my place of work, and I intended it as a sort of "disclaimer". Ha-ha. I wasn't clear about that. BTW, vis-a-vis the Tijuana Free Market qua government involvement with addicting substances, I think your precision statitics below are apropos, Q.E.D. :>) *

.... Tobacco, which kills an estimated 400,000 a year is the winner. (The statistics I saw a few years ago were easily memorizable: tobacco: 400,000, alchohol: 40,000, drugs: 4,000.)

.. Blanc * you would have had to read my "How to Win an Argument" post to appreciate this one.