Friday, March 23, 2007
Scientists want new drug rankings
And are probably going to be wrong again.
The new ranking system places alcohol and tobacco in the upper half of the league table, ahead of cannabis and several Class A drugs such as ecstasy.
So what do the nincompoops want ? Not, almost certainly, in practice to make cigarettes and alcohol illegal. Alcohol was illegal in India for many years and to get it you had to obtain an addict's permit from a Doctor - which many foreigners, doubtless mainly dead by now in the customary George Best way - did contrive to do. In fact I've often said that one good thing that was done in Hyderabad by a muslim town council (at last memory now hindu again) was the prohibition of alcohol, only made legal after argument and protests. Alcohol should be illegal everywhere but unfortunately it is very easy to make at home, though soon scientifically designed sniffers should be up to eradicating it - I hope. It is said that the only reason alcohol was made legal in Delhi was that the police were afraid of drunken monkeys and elephants raiding the illegal liquor that was seized.
The corrupt hands of alcohol and cigarette manufacturers should be physically cut off,.but in the UK this won't happen. And the idea that because less people die or are made ill by ecstacy and so ecstacy should be legalised is obviously nutty. For one thing it is much less frequently used, and individual doses can wreck a life - I've known unfortunate cases in the UK. We even see an heir to the UK throne called 'Wills', so someone could get money from the cigarette manufacturers.
The new ranking system places alcohol and tobacco in the upper half of the league table, ahead of cannabis and several Class A drugs such as ecstasy.
So what do the nincompoops want ? Not, almost certainly, in practice to make cigarettes and alcohol illegal. Alcohol was illegal in India for many years and to get it you had to obtain an addict's permit from a Doctor - which many foreigners, doubtless mainly dead by now in the customary George Best way - did contrive to do. In fact I've often said that one good thing that was done in Hyderabad by a muslim town council (at last memory now hindu again) was the prohibition of alcohol, only made legal after argument and protests. Alcohol should be illegal everywhere but unfortunately it is very easy to make at home, though soon scientifically designed sniffers should be up to eradicating it - I hope. It is said that the only reason alcohol was made legal in Delhi was that the police were afraid of drunken monkeys and elephants raiding the illegal liquor that was seized.
The corrupt hands of alcohol and cigarette manufacturers should be physically cut off,.but in the UK this won't happen. And the idea that because less people die or are made ill by ecstacy and so ecstacy should be legalised is obviously nutty. For one thing it is much less frequently used, and individual doses can wreck a life - I've known unfortunate cases in the UK. We even see an heir to the UK throne called 'Wills', so someone could get money from the cigarette manufacturers.
# posted by uv : 8:40 AM
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