Re: Choc bar drugs pair will appeal

Re: Choc bar drugs pair will appeal

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:55:28 -0000,"Sla#s", wrote

> Pete nospam Zakel wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > One aspect of bad laws is that they tend to cause more harm than what
> > they
> > are attempting to regulate.
>
> That would be a pretty good way of defining a bad law. Didn't Jimmy
> Carter say as much once?
>
> Slatts

Of course he did Slatts. 30 years ago when he was brighter than
currently. The Drug Reform movement during his Adminstration was
discredited by a White House staffer's involvement with cocaine
to the best of my recollection.

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more
damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself."
--President Jimmy Carter, Message to Congress, August 2, 1977

later
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It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
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