"PeterE" <peter@xyz_ringtail.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:berqmi$c9p$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...

> I find it fascinating how many "Guardian" type pundits are prepared at the
> same time to support increased restrictions on tobacco and alcohol use, but
> advocate the liberalisation of the law on other drugs.
>

Sounds reasonable to me why discriminate between alcohol & tobacco and other
soft recreational drugs? Stronger controls on tobacco and alcohol could be the same
as those for the likes of marijuana, by separating the point of sale of the most commonly
used soft recreational drugs from harder more addictive drugs you reduce the chances of
people working there way up the ladder. Considering that marijuana is beloved to be
less addictive and harmful than tobacco you don't hear of people saying that cigarettes lead
to the use of heroin or cocaine do you?