[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[ChrisQ]

On 12/19/11 01:45, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article<6f1b5451-ed3d-4f71-aa18-36d98ba6eb9b at a17g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>, Jose Baars<peutbaars at googlemail.com>  writes:

>
> Free syringes has ONLY one impetus and that is to avoid the spread of AIDS.
> IV drug users don't care.  And, offering syringes without the drug does NOT
> lower any costs of crime that is committed to support these habits.  You've
> got to be drugged out yourself to even think such nonsense.
>
> I've lived a 5+ year heroin nightmare, so please don't pretend to preach to
> the choir on this.  Thank you.
>

I never got strung out on any drugs, but knew several people in 60's 
Oxford that
did and later in the 70's working in music. Some are now dead from the 
experience,
others went on to lead normal lives, some occasionally still use. Have 
always been
against prohibition because it hands billions of $ to organised crime 
and makes
criminals of otherwise law abiding citizens. It creates a mutually 
dependent culture
between traffickers and enforcement that has every interest in 
maintaining the status
quo, irrespective of harm done. One could say that is has no redeeming 
features
whatsoever. The billions of $  spent worldwide in drug enforcement 
programs have been
shown again and again to be a complete failure. Countries like Mexico 
suffer horrendous
violence, while  others are bought outright, because of the obscene 
amounts of money
to be made from the illegal trade.

Yes, if all drugs were decriminalised, there might be a rise in use 
initially, but this
would diminish over time as people became aware of the dangers and the 
novelty wore off.
Some of the money saved on enforcement could be spent on treatment 
centres. The problems
would be nothing like those we have from trying to suppress the trade. 
For me, who no
longer has any interest in consumption, btw, there's also the issue of 
civil liberties.
Why should any government have the right to dictate what I or anyone 
else can imbibe
in the privacy of my own home ?. People going to jail or single mothers 
losing custody
of their child because they are found with a bit of weed ?. What kind of 
inhumanity is
that ?.

Sorry about the rant, but a problem that really needs radical solutions...

Regards,

Chris