[galt-jw]

The potency of marijuana has reached the point that half the tourist population of Amsterdam is wondering if it's on the planet Mars tonight and even Labour MPs reject the idea of legalisation here.

and tonight, as every night, those who pursue the intoxication of alcohol to the extreme are in their own realm. but every glass they drink is another payment to the revenue fund.

if you dont own your consiousness
WHO does?

the state.

[MadIvan]

and tonight, as every night, those who pursue the intoxication of alcohol to the extreme are in their own realm. but every glass they drink is another payment to the revenue fund.

if you dont own your consiousness WHO does?

Issac Asimov put it best. Private vices are all right so long as they are just that: private. However at the moment they aren't. I have to pay for the police to clear the junkie off my yard. If I lived in Liverpool, I'd have to pay for his heroin; elsewhere I pay for his methodone. Libertarians have it backwards, remove the apparatus of state socialism before you start allowing people to get whacked on blow - because otherwise private vice is a public expense and as someone who is sober and works, I'm doing the paying.

Ivan