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My whippet. Serious poonanie.

So you want my young children (my fictional young children) lying awake at night dreaming of when they are old enough to cook up? No thanks. I want them knowing that drugs are illegal and dangerous. Legalising them is society giving the nod to their use. And once again, I don't buy the argument that use goes down. It doesn't. For ever report that says it does, there is one that says it goes up. I love it when people cling to 'reports'. This is a case of morality, not reports. Drugs are wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. No amount of reports will change that fact, hence they are rightly illegal. Thank God.

so why don't women just have one 'cyclops' breast? Most human litters are only one strong.

but did use go up after the ban was lifted..... thank, you. Point set and match to me.

Wrong. Plain Wrong.

Sorry chum, you are wrong. Plain wrong. Useage goes up. People experiment and some get hooked. There is nothing, and no report you could show me to convince me otherwise. Explain why Amsterdam is now making it increasingly harder for cafes to get licenses for weed? Because they are fed up with the stone heads wondering around. Drugs are wrong. Evil. Drug users are sad, sad ****ers who need clinical help. Drug dealers are scum and should be flogged in public and then imprisoned for life. Until they die. Thank God none of our politicians is prepared to unleash hell on Earth by decriminalizing drugs. It will **** off the egiot hippie brigade but at least young children will still grow up in a country which is prepared to recognize, in law, the danger that drugs are.

You make my point! My friends would still be zombies if it was decriminalized. But so would a whole lot MORE people. If someone wants to get high bad enough he will. The point of criminalizing drugs is to keep a firm line drawn in the dirt. I do however belief that much, much, much more funding needs to be available to users. In no way should they be marginalised, but helped. And sending the user to prison is just stupid. I've already said what I would do with the dealers.

Our biggest threat next season? Iran. If they nuke Israel then it is season over.

The point is that society is saying 'NO!'. More people will use and get hooked and **** their lives up if they are legal and readily available. Just because the law changes does not change the chemical of the drug. What this is really about is a reaction against the state. Nothing else. There is nothing remotely sensible about the proposal to decrim drugs. And blessedly it is a total non-starter with all political parties. Thank God.

So how has that worked out in America, after they scrapped prohibition of booze? Did booze use go down, per capita? Any booze related deaths in the US? Less booze-fueled crime per capita? That argument is just crap. The idea that there will be less drug use if it is legal is, well, just so much idiocy.

being thin. being able to maintain an erection

because most hippie-sh!ts who want to decriminalize drugs appear to believe that they are just awesome, cool and harmless and that drug dealers are Che revolutionaries. Boll0x. Dealers are murderers.

Thank you Dell. There is nothing to gain for society. Also, what does it say to people? Go wreck your lives on dope. I knew two fellas who smoked so much weed - heavy duty stuff, too - that they are now both paranoid skitsoes. Utterly ****ed up their brains. Irreversible damage. They are costing the NHS thousands, and thousands in long term psychiatric care. And their 'sensible' middle class families are devastated. Drugs are evil. Drug dealers are lower than worms. One way ticket to the Scrubbs if I had my way. And only because I am against the death penalty.

Seriously, my whippet has a loads. Why do women only have two breasts? This is the question of the age, I'm sure. Any women out there? How come you only got two jugs?

It's their fault for not working hard enough. The poor are poor because they haven't opened their markets to global corporations which bring wealth, health and prosperity thanks to the miracle of neo-classical economics. If the poor were serious about living they would get off their lazy butts and contribute to corporate profits. Maybe then they would be able to afford to buy all the food they ever needed.

Best keep this thread open. They'll be bankrupt again soon. What with their sh!t stadium and all that. There are only two teams in Hampshire: Saints and Totton.

The 90s seem like a world away now. I remember my first modem. 14Kbs. Awesome. AOL: 'you got mail'. And newsgroups! Compuserve... mmmm compuserve! Oh, and Matt Le Tiss. The 90s were ok. Until that knob-head Blair pitched up. What a plonka. Money-grubbing, war-mongering weasel.

Only when people understand what money is, can they begin to understand the ramifications of debt. Debt=money=debt=money. But what ties money to resources? Nadda. And, no I am not on about the gold standard.

No way should this happen. It is a classic case of making every decision based upon raw monetary accounting only. Employment is not just about earning money. It is a basic human need to feel 'useful'. As a parallel, short-sighted councils will quickly cut back on funding for parks. Small horticulturist and landscape businesses who used to beautify the common, public spaces in a town will be cut back. The result? Less expenditure. On paper. However, in times of economic hardship families cut back on paid-for entertainment and yet still need someone to go play. There is a direct correlation between the quality of public spaces and general 'happiness' levels. One of human-kind's greatest failings is to make our most important decisions based upon monetary accounting only. A more holistic accountancy is required to give value to those things which can not be quantified. Back to outsourcing to India, or more general 'off-shoring'. When the first firms in the USA began to off-shore production they immediately turned in better profit numbers as their products were being made cheaper and their customers could buy more of them. Costs down and sales up! Every CEO's wet dream. However, as more and more firms started to send well paid jobs over seas a funny thing started to happen. The marginal increase in profitability set against the marginal increase in sales resulting from cheaper prices started to contract. Explanation? Real median wages since the out-sourcing began in the early 80s have fallen. Why? Because the high paid jobs have been shipped over seas! Beware the unintended consequences of feedback loops. So, stuff the BNP's position on out-sourcing. It is just poor economics. EDIT: and don't get me started on those feking automatic check-out machines in supermarkets.

Don't legalise drugs. Drugs wreck lives. Drug dealers should be flogged in public, Malaysian style.

well said.

Then I respectfully suggest you go read the HRW reports I linked to above. And also reflect on what I said about us being propagandized into believing that the Congolese villagers are just a 'by-product' - unfortunate though it may be - of 'extremes of capitalism'; a sort of waste product. The part where you say 'distinction between poverty caused by...' is telling. The blind hypocrisy stinks. If a family is terrorized in Congo or Syria, what difference is there?

yes and no. The abuse cases from 1960s state sanatoriums abound. Just because they are state-run will not mean per se that abuse will not happen. However, if the company had both invested in decent recruitment and training, maybe paid their staff more and always had a senior responsible manager on site at all times then these abuses would have, in all likelyhood, not have begun in the first place. But all of that would have resulted in lower profits.

Eh? Because we need them to continue our standard of living. The point I am making is precisely the one you have alluded to! It is not - repeat NOT - about money. Money is a human construct, especially the fiat kind. It is not bound to anything, is purely abstract. Resources are what really matters. Mineral and hydrocarbon resources - along with potable water, topsoil, clean air etc (what are collectively known as the Commons) - can not be created out of thin air. Credit - aka, money - most certainly can be wished into existence.