HW: Reefer Madness (was Re: OFF: smoking etc.)

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Paul Mather wrote:

> Trying to steer this marginally on-topic, recently I had the enormous
> pleasure of watching the film _Reefer Madness_ (thanks to the Virginia
> Tech library), and I heartily recommend it to all!  I especially liked
> the part where the floozie dives to her death out of the upper floor
> window because she can bear no longer the thought of the moral
> degeneration she has wrought with the evil weed!
>
> 100% realism guaranteed throughout!!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> NP: Gov't Mule, _Life Before Insanity_
>
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "It's evil, wicked, mean and nasty!"
>         --- Steppenwolf, "Don't Step on the Grass, Sam"
>
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, M Holmes wrote:
>
> => Nick English writes:
> =>
> => > As the father of a 4-year-old, I generally tend to look at things
> => > from the perspective of what I want my son getting involved with and
> => > what I don't. In that sense, tobacco, alcohol and the "illegals" are
> => > all taboo.
> =>
> => Indeed, and the Prohibitionists often tell us that their excesses are
> => excused by the need to Prooootect the Chilruuun, missing the point that
> => in Prohibition these substances are functionally uncontrolled and their
> => distribution handed to criminals rather than controlled and their
> => distribution handled by retailers who have a profitable licence to lose
> => if they sell to children.
> =>
> => But then logic never seems to have been a strong suit.
> =>
> => FoFP