In article > "Andy Pandy" > writes:
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>"Pete nospam Zakel" > wrote in message
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>> >> the single best way to reduce alcohol-related mayhem is to allow open
>> >> sales and use of other intoxicants. all the young lads who cause most
>> >> of the problems would be much better off smoking cannabis rather than
>> >> alcohol.

>> >Of course, there will be more violence due to other drugs. What if the
>> >lads' favourite turns out to be crack instead of dope?

>> To your first point: totally untrue. Most of the violence is related to the
>> black market drug trade, not the use of the drugs.

>Strange how a legal drug like alcohol seems to cause so much violence then.

Not strange at all. It has nothing to do with legal status, but with a
property unique to alcohol.

Numerous studies have shown that the only drug that tends to provoke increased
violence in users is alcohol.

-Pete Zakel
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"Public nudity is the evil the state seeks to prevent."

-William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States