Hi, Phoenix.

--- Laurie Campbell  wrote:

> I find it amusing that pot is called the gateway drug when nearly
> everyone
> who smokes pot or does hard drugs or is an alcoholic smokes
> cigarettes, yet nicotine is not called a gateway drug

Or alcohol, for that matter, and alcohol is a narcotic by definition.
 Check the Blackinston-Gould Medical dictionary under "narcotic" some
time.
 
> > >legalize it (and tax holy hell out of it)
> >
> >Indeed!  Tax it to the max.
> >
> I'm for that

The Neo-fascist, ilLiberal Party tried that just a few years ago;
with cigarettes.  Remember?  Went over like a lead balloon. 
Blackmarketeering skyrocketed.

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Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is 
the loftiest of cowardice. --Holbrook Jackson

>From the Lair of Fang-Face DreamWeaver
and The Encyclopedia Michael Nellis
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/dreamweaver/index.html

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