Comments on: A Sledgehammer to Crack a Nutt http://thethirdestate.net/2009/11/a-sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nutt/ What Is The Third Estate? Everything. What Has It Been Until Now In The Political Order? Nothing. What Does It Want To Be? Something. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:12:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Salman Shaheen http://thethirdestate.net/2009/11/a-sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nutt/comment-page-1/#comment-5053 Salman Shaheen Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:07:47 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/2009/11/a-sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nutt/#comment-5053 1. Drugs such as cannabis, LSD and ecstasy are statistically less dangerous to your health than alcohol and tobacco 2. The money you spend on cannabis, LSD and ecstasy is likely to go to morally reprehensible people (possibly even more morally reprehensible than the government). I tried to put this to David Raynes who took exception to one of my articles on here and it seemed lost on him. He, like the government, preferred to rehearse a tired mantra that essentially boiled down to 'drugs are bad, mmmmkay'. Legalisation, really, is the only sensible solution to both issues. 1. Drugs such as cannabis, LSD and ecstasy are statistically less dangerous to your health than alcohol and tobacco
2. The money you spend on cannabis, LSD and ecstasy is likely to go to morally reprehensible people (possibly even more morally reprehensible than the government).

I tried to put this to David Raynes who took exception to one of my articles on here and it seemed lost on him. He, like the government, preferred to rehearse a tired mantra that essentially boiled down to ‘drugs are bad, mmmmkay’. Legalisation, really, is the only sensible solution to both issues.

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