Items in uk.rec.driving

Subject:Re: Go easy on drivers, cops told
Date:Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:27:02 +0100
From:"Chris Ward" <chriswarduk@0800dial.com>
Newsgroups:uk.transport,uk.rec.driving

"Dave Plowman" <dave.sound@argonet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4c115663dedave.sound@argonet.co.uk...
> In article <berbpo$85e6k$1@ID-173949.news.uni-berlin.de>,
>    Chris Ward <chriswarduk@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Why? Your body belongs to you. You should be allowed to put whatever
> > > you like into it.
>
> > By that logic, its your car and life & you should be allowed to drive as
> > fast as you want. By funding the drugs industry your potentially doing
as
> > much damage as any speeding motorist
>
> Only because some drugs are arbitrarily illegal. Legalise them, control
> the supply and tax them like alcohol and tobacco, and the illegal drugs
> industry would die.

That would lead to more addicts, who would have to find a way to fund their
habit .. unless these "drugstores" would supply free fixes! Also, if its
legaliesed it would far easier for kids to get their hands on the likes of
extasy, crack, etc! They would become what alcohol and tobacco are today
......