Big Drug War News (Congressman Dan Burton on the drug war)

So you are implying that Coke, meth, heroin are all really harmless? The danger is all in our heads?

Classic, just classic.

Alcohol is extremely dangerous if consumed in excess. So are coke, meth, and the various opiates. But all three of the latter categories of drugs are used in medical practice. Cocaine in solution was swabbed into my nose during my nasal surgery to reduce swelling and dull the nerves of my sinus tissue, as it is a extremely effective topical anesthetic.

More information on the opiates is at this link.

Yep tex has reverted back to his 'classical' full denial mode.

He will now attempt to ignore every post except those to which he can formulate some sort of wisecrack.
Of course, such remarks only illustrate his unwise & juvenile views about our free republic.

If not, why do you insist on calling other non-drug users who express similar opinions to Burton's names like that?

Where have I ever done so? If I had, then I sincerely apologize to all drug users to have mistakenly associated them with humanist ideologues.

"I sincerely apologize to all drug users to have mistakenly associated them with humanist ideologues." -CJ-

CJ, your 'sincerity' disappeared months ago in this post below , along with your crediblity on this forum:

"It is sound Christian doctrine that the presense of unneeded suffering in the world is caused by one thing, and one thing alone: sin. War, famine, drought, flood, pestilence, disease, all are caused by sin. But we are not able to judge individual human souls. That is the prerogative of God alone.
A pregnant mother who was crushed in the WTC suffered and died because of sin, but not necessarity because of HER sin.

She may have suffered and died for the sins of someone else. Perhaps for my sins, perhaps for yours, perhaps for the sins of the terrorists, perhaps for the sins of Bill Clinton and Barbara Boxer.
Immorality brings unneeded suffering and death. Sure, we can pinpoint some individual instances, and perhaps deduce whose sin is being punished. A man who consents to step out of an airplane without a parachute: he may not suffer and die right away, but certainly down the road because of his action."

All I do is describe Reality. Anyone is free to disagree with Reality if they want to.

111 posted on 09/15/2001 9:25 AM PDT by Cultural Jihad

So according to CJ does that mean that if we would all stop all of this sinning that we would live forever?

I got to tell you I have known long term, hard core drug addicts and alcoholics that don't come up with stuff that is this bizarre.

Just another interesting fact I found tonight concerning the use of alcohol and the incident of committing a violent offence against another of an intimate relationship. Taken from the Department of Justice fact file.

About half of all offenders convicted of intimate violence and confined in a local jail or a State prison had been drinking at the time of the offense. Jail inmates who had been drinking prior to the intimate violence consumed an average amount of ethanol equivalent to 10 beers.

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