In article , drjohn@NOSPAM.hotpotmail.com (Dr
John Watson) wrote:

> *From:* Dr John Watson 
> *Date:* Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:08:28 +0100
> 
> Noticed at Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:43:00 +0100: Claude informed us:
> 
> > In article ,
> > drjohn@NOSPAM.hotpotmail.com (Dr John Watson) wrote:
> > 
> >> He said there was a human right to use drugs, so long as it did 
> not
> >> negatively impact on the rights of others.
> 
> > It does, it impacts on friends, family, employers and society.
> 
> So does a jail sentence or a criminal record, more so than an 
> occasional
> line or spliff. "Daddy's doing 2 years for buying 10 pills for a 
> private
> party, I miss him".
> 
> 
> > Harm from drugs legal or illegal, is not just to the user. 
> > Therein lies
> > the failure of the so called harm reduction through legalisation
> > argument.
> 
> You've just argued for alcohol and tobacco to be criminalised.
> 
> > "Total Harm" increases as overall use of a drug increases. That 
> > is the
> > evidence of the existing legal markets in some drugs.
> 
> Is that the depth of your thought? It's a truism.
Exactly and it is so obviously true that it is very hard to argue against. It is a
truism that the legalisation lobby avoid agreeing with. In fact from Arnold Trebach
and Lethal Needleman down, they avoid it. I am very glad to hear that you, of all
people, accept it. Great and surprising news. 
SNIP>

On 21 jun, 13:25, Cla...@aol.com (Claude) wrote:
> In article , drj...@NOSPAM.hotpotmail.com (Dr
>
>
>
>
>
> John Watson) wrote:
> > *From:* Dr John Watson 
> > *Date:* Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:08:28 +0100
>
> > Noticed at Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:43:00 +0100: Claude informed us:
>
> > > In article ,
> > > drj...@NOSPAM.hotpotmail.com (Dr John Watson) wrote:
>
> > >> He said there was a human right to use drugs, so long as it did
> > not
> > >> negatively impact on the rights of others.
>
> > > It does, it impacts on friends, family, employers and society.
>
> > So does a jail sentence or a criminal record, more so than an
> > occasional
> > line or spliff. "Daddy's doing 2 years for buying 10 pills for a
> > private
> > party, I miss him".
>
> > > Harm from drugs legal or illegal, is not just to the user.
> > > Therein lies
> > > the failure of the so called harm reduction through legalisation
> > > argument.
>
> > You've just argued for alcohol and tobacco to be criminalised.
>
> > > "Total Harm" increases as overall use of a drug increases. That
> > > is the
> > > evidence of the existing legal markets in some drugs.
>
> > Is that the depth of your thought? It's a truism.
>
> Exactly and it is so obviously true that it is very hard to argue against. It is a
> truism that the legalisation lobby avoid agreeing with. In fact from Arnold Trebach
> and Lethal Needleman down, they avoid it. I am very glad to hear that you, of all
> people, accept it. Great and surprising news.

It's bullshit perpetuated by prohibitionist nazi scum. Total harm
actually went down when alcohol was legalized.
Total harm would go down if cannabis would be legalized, because most
of the harm associated with cannabis
is caused by prohibition of cannabis rather than cannabis itself.