[headsonpikes]

Thank you for posting this study, unspun.

I'm sure that other 'End The WOD' types will adequately deal with the issues without my involvement.

I only want to say that your measured and non-splenetic comments I've seen on other drug threads represent the Gold Standard of pro-WOD posters, much as I disagree with you.

Tomorrow, I'll be coming after you, but at this moment my bride is calling me for dinner. ;^)

[unspun]

Thank you for gushing about me!

[Republic of Texas]

Has anyone here ever done any of the drugs mentioned in this article? We seem to have a whole bunch of "experts", so I'd like to hear HOW everyone became so knowledgeable.

[bigfootbob]

"Tomorrow, I'll be coming after you, but at this moment my bride is calling me for dinner. ;^)"

HAHAHA, this from someone who lives in the marijuana capital of the West coast.

[unspun]

We don't need to be at war on this; we just need to act wisely and responsibly.

But, do you mean this kind of posting for instance? -- a response to a post from an apparent drug libber, who presented this standard for prohibiting legislation about matters that are... "above and beyond living peacefully and honestly."

A Libertarian standard would interpret this only as if it said "legislate only against the immediate, direct, and objective infringement upon the peace of others." An intellectually honest view, however is that traditionally, this does not satisfy free Americans who have always sought to promote the general welfare through responsible government action, from guardrails on highways, to banning intoxicants, to investing in vaccines, to outlawing sex with consenting minors, to banning the unauthorized ownership of deadly contagens, to prohibiting consentual fights to the death (even in dogfight events) to banning unauthorized tests of nuclear fission, and on and on.

Americans have been at work, choosing very carefully, from the get go, what negative behaviors to legislate, which lead to and result in the violation of our peace or freedom, and the deterioration of our welfare. We weigh these things in the balance. It is fundamentally dishonest to engage in destructive behaviors of all sorts and free, republican Ameicans have traditionaly treated these matters with liberties of all sorts in mind. In mind in good perspective, that is.

Any judge or justice worth his salt has understood this, with the very balance of consideration declared in the Preamble to the Constitution, its summarizing statement of original intent.

But I understand that this is "statism" and "socialism" to revisionistic Libertarians. Not to worry; I understand that. But the sovereign People do not need to be forced to exhalt the regard of our rights and liberties above our mutual responsibilities so as to disconnect the two. We do not need to be imposed upon to idolize liberties.