[Alcohol related] Liver disease killing blue-collar men: study : Melbourne Indymedia

Liver disease killing blue-collar men: study. Says, the ABC headline...

[But what came first the chicken or the egg? What propaganda? What caused it? Alcohol? So why not just spit it out corporate ABC?]

'Alcohol related' liver disease killing blue-collar men: study

A new study says men in blue-collar jobs are two-and-a-half times more likely to die from [alcohol which causes] cirrhosis of the liver than white-collar workers.

[Is that because blue-collar jobs are 'physically harder' and more drinking is done? More likely! As well, that those people earn less and struggle harder to make ends meet? More likely! Less money to spend or to pay their bills with? More likely! More to worry about perhaps? More likely! More money to pay more tax? Not likely!]

The study, which examined death rates among Australian men between 1981 and 2002, showed [alcohol related] liver cirrhosis is the 10th biggest killer of men in Australia.

University of Queensland researcher Professor Jake Najman says cirrhosis is caused by lengthy and high-level alcohol consumption and the Government needs to treat alcohol like tobacco by restricting its availability and increasing taxes?

[But what has taxes got to do with it? More revenue for the gov't coffers? What about a Warning Label? What about the fact that blue-collar workers might drink more because they struggle harder? Or have more to worry about? So how do they get money to pay more tax? On that basis how does an additionl tax help them to stop killing themselves? That would just make it it a lot harder for them to stop drinking.]

Jake Najman: "We're increasing the availability of alcohol by making it more readily available right through the community," he said.

"The tax on alcohol appears to have actually declined and the cost of alcohol over time has become relatively cheaper.

Jake Najman: "Governments are going to have to take this issue of the sale of alcohol fairly seriously."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1919420.htm

But how much would it cost to warn people?

And how serious is say a WARNING label that might say, WARNING: ALCOHOL CAUSES LIVER DAMAGE - M,M,M, MY, CIRRHOSIS!

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Legal & Illicit Drugs Blog

Switch off Capitalism...[temporarily as a test run] mp3s out
Mardi Grass Hemp Hours, Playspace and Scan Dot Org out now.
Illicit drugs and how much they're doing to our society? Goddess: I got up and said that all 98 percent of all drug related deaths are caused by alcohol and cigarettes. We're looking at 2-3 percent of drug related deaths over here. From the best of my knowledge, and I'm very knowledgeable, that no one had ever died from Marijuana."
http://media.libsyn.com/media/nimbinradiomedia/hh_2007-05-04.mp3 1 hr. 28 min mono 40.1 MB
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144649.php

Alice goes dry in 'landmark' decision
Drinking in public places will be banned in Alice Springs from August, in the latest attempt to address problems associated with chronic alcohol abuse in the town.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1918202.htm

Euthanasia drug makers shrug off jail threat
Euthanasia proponents are defending the illegal manufacture of the barbiturate, Nembutal. ABC TV's Four [Walls] Corners program last night reported that members of the Exit Foundation are making the drug illegally in a backyard lab in New South Wales. The Federal Government has warned anyone caught producing Nembutal faces a 15-year jail term. A Queensland-based foundation member, 64-year-old Bron Norman, says it is a risk euthanasia proponents are willing to take. "At some time in the future, I may need to end my life in a peaceful way, rather than suffer a horrendous, long, drawn-out death," he said.
"I don't see why politicians should have the right to tell me that I've got to suffer."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1917343.htm

Pregnant women 'need better alcohol guidelines'
Perth researchers want clearer alcohol guidelines for pregnant women, after finding recommendations for safe levels of drinking during pregnancy vary across the country.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1915471.htm

Response to "Is Pot Going Off the Boil"
Don’t take our word for it though, let’s see what the Health Dept has to say about everyone’s favourite drug of choice: “Alcohol is the most widely used (D & J: no, consumed as it is also abused) psychoactive drug in Australia. (And we might, add…the World).
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50827

Alcohol worse than ecstasy on shock new drug list
Some of Britain's leading drug experts demand today that the government's classification regime be scrapped and replaced by one that more honestly reflects the harm caused by alcohol and tobacco. They say the current ABC system is "arbitrary" and not based on evidence.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,,2040886,00.html

website to check out
A long read, but worth it if you want to know about all drugs.
So, grab your ethyl alcohol drug; cannabis joint/bong/vapouriser/tea/cookie; cigarette (or slap on a nicotine patch), a caffeine drug, pop a few vicodin or whatever and sit back and enjoy.
http://www.rsadrugscommission.org/
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50814#comment

Alcohol damages women's brains faster than men: study
The brain-damaging effects of alcohol strike women more quickly than men, a new study says.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1905039.htm

Police 'distraught' over death in custody
A police superintendent says police officers at Bendigo in central Victoria are distraught over the death of a woman in custody yesterday morning. The 51-year-old Kyneton woman was arrested on drug charges on Thursday and complained of feeling ill over the weekend.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1904794.htm

Businesses call for support on workplace drug issues
A business group is calling on governments to do more to help with drug problems, after a report which found drug issues cost companies more than $3 billion a year.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1904439.htm

Big drop in wine grape harvest predicted
Extreme wBig drop in wine grape harvest predicted
Extreme weather conditions have slashed this year's national wine grape harvest, with predictions it will be the smallest in seven years.eather conditions have slashed this year's national wine grape harvest, with predictions it will be the smallest in seven years.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1904440.htm

Bali trio appeal against death sentences
Lawyers for three of the six members of the Bali nine who have been sentenced to death in Indonesia have filed a judicial review appeal with Denpasar's District Court. Thanh Duc Tan Nguyen, Si Yi Chen and Matthew Norman are arguing that their sentences for trying to smuggle heroin out of Bali should not have been increased to death.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1904405.htm

Mardi Grass 2007 Special - The drug war is real, but we didn't start it
http://media.libsyn.com/media/nimbinradiomedia/sdo_mardi_grass_special_2007-04-23_.mp3

Hemp Hour - 2007 Year of Hemp
http://media.libsyn.com/media/nimbinradiomedia/hh_2007-04-20.mp3

Bali Nine appeal to challenge death sentence
Lawyers for convicted Bali Nine drug trafficker Scott Rush say experts on international law will speak in Indonesia's constitutional court next week in the appeal against his death sentence.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1904029.htm

Researcher welcomes 'ice' crackdown
A Western Australian drug researcher has welcomed a new Federal Government campaign aimed at cracking down on the manufacture and use of methamphetamines, or 'ice'.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1903810.htm

Illicit drugs costing Australian business billions in sales$$$
Because and old report has found illicit drugs are costing Australian businesses because less people are buying alcohol and cigarettes. But alcohol and cigarettes are costing the community a lot more, because of the community having to pay for absenteeism, road accidents, domestic violence, police, prisons, hospitals and the morgue.
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50742

PM unveils $150m plan to combat 'ice'
The Prime Minister John Howard says a $150 million package to fight use of the drug ice will make a difference.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1903572.htm

Binge-drinking police need support, Minister says
A working party has been formed to combat binge drinking among Queensland police officers.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1903589.htm

NSW crime down, boozing youths a concern
It said alcohol abuse also was largely responsible for a 4.3 per cent increase in malicious damage to property in the two years to December 2006.
http://tinyurl.com/2bzqzy

Dope Pushers Brand Others Dopes
After our local newspaper, the Coffs Harbour Ethanol Drug Advocate, (explanation coming up), put out a discriminatory and prejudiced titled article called ‘Campaign to stop DOPES from smoking’ (consuming their drug of choice), I felt it was time to expose yet another example of highly blatant drug apartheid discrimination policy and belief being applied by those in power and the so-called ‘know’.
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50677

A-Gs push to make drink swapping a criminal offence
The New South Wales Attorney-General says he has received the support of the nation's lawmakers to include drink swapping on the criminal register as part of a nationwide move to make drink and food spiking a jailable offence.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1897194.htm

Study reveals meth plague among young Aussies, but not an alcohol plague? New statistics on drug use show Australians are the biggest users of ecstasy and methamphetamines in the English-speaking world.
But what about amongst the biggest drinkers in the english speaking world? The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report says one in five Australians aged in their 20s has tried methamphetamines.
But the community says just about every Australian aged in their 20s has tried alcohol. Australia is ahead in tackling smoking, with the fourth lowest rate in the developed world. Since 1985, the number of daily smokers has reduced by 40 per cent. But the number of drinkers has gone up!
Sorcerer: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1895029.htm

So what about the smoking and drinking plague?
Bad luck about the alcohol? How do we rate? Smoking cigaretts kills more people than all those drugs put together. Perhaps if we deal with the real plague amongst young Aussies then we can deal with the rest? So we need to start with corporatocracy first!
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143188_comment.php#143451

Police target private schools after marijuana report
Police will push to extend their drug protocol policy to Victoria's private schools after a report of drug problems at a Catholic secondary school in Melbourne. [So now they take ICE]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1894323.htm

Schools work towards drug-testing code
The Association of Independent Schools says it is confident there will be no withdrawal of students from national competitions over drug tests carried out by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA).
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1893965.htm

Schools air opposition to drug testing student athletes
The heads of Australian independent schools are meeting the Commonwealth's anti-doping authority today to protest against the drug testing of school children at sports carnivals.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1893216.htm

Decriminalisation and integration
I would rather be disliked for what I am than liked for what I am not’. We have become the unconscious victims of the Stockholm Syndrome, a psychological survival mechanism whereby the victims of oppression unwittingly take on the norms and values of the ones who hold them to ransom. We can organize parties with Bette Midler look-a-likes, bingo and sports events, get our priests ordained so that they can marry us and even come up with our own liberal candidate.
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50589

Prohibition - Nothing Has Changed
Taken from various websites with my comments.
WEBSITE: In the late seventeenth century, the Reverend Increase Mather, probably the most influential Puritan minister of his time, said that alcohol was "a good creature of God" and that man should partake of the gift without abusing it. His son, being a little more concerned about drinking, encouraged people to set a good example by not getting drunk. (which is still drug abuse, so they were really saying the same thing).
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50557

Low-calorie bubbly aimed at health conscious women
While some wine critics have labelled it a gimmick, the launch of a new range of low calorie, low alcohol sparkling wines is expected to attract a new group of wine drinkers.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1889733.htm

Schoolboy drug test objections pursued
The heads of Australian Independent Schools will meet the Federal Government's anti-doping authority next week to protest the drug testing of school children at sporting carnivals.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1889703.htm

Police in our community and responsible ethanol drug dealing?
Considering that the Drug Ethanol is a proven cancer causer, and that we sent (one month ago) ethanol and cancer information to Cr. Rod McKelvey, so that he could address this important issue, we find it quite insulting that no mention has been made when it comes to this drug and cancer, or about psychosis, schizophrenia, dementia, diabetes, central nervous system damage, organ damage, neuro-toxic poisoning, alcoholic hepatitis, pellagra, foetal alcohol syndrome, anti-social personality disorder, amygdaloid syndrome (to lose control of one’s rage response) etc. etc. etc. There wasn’t even a mention, anywhere, that ethanol was a DRUG! The drug dealers didn’t mention it; the police didn’t mention it; our drug Advocate - who printed the article - certainly didn’t mention it. Why should they? They get their money by advertising and advocating the drug ethanol.
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50502

Alcohol mixed with other drugs proves popular with students
"Don't take alcohol with anything it's mad mans broth," he said.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/137213.php

Dangers of kids drinking
A research team from Boston University analysed the results of a 2001-2002 survey of 43,000 adults and found that 47% of people who had started drinking before the age of 14 met criteria for alcohol dependence within 10 years, compared to 4% of those who started drinking at the age of 21.
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/17197

Cancer warnings needed on alcohol, Salvation Army says
"We actually print the labels here, put them on the alcohol, send it overseas to these countries, yet we don't do that for our own citizens," he said.
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/23427

Parents regularly give alcohol to 12yo kids: study
A study of Australian high school children shows parents are giving alcohol to children as young as 12 on a regular basis.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1835504.htm

Study finds half of pregnant women drink
New Australian research has found almost half of all pregnant women drink alcohol during pregnancy.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1834950.htm

Foster's posts $554m half-year profit
The company has reported a 90 per cent jump in net profit after tax to $554 million. A total of $190 million of that was from the sale of one of its businesses.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200702/s1851879.htm

So how much did the federal gov't make?

Corby's book profits frozen
Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been stripped of profits made through the sale of her book My Story.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1882698.htm

Kidney disease hits record numbers
A new report shows a record number of Australians have kidney disease.
Doctors want patients to be offered regular kidney check-ups as part of preventative health care.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1873121.htm

Did you notice they left off drinking alcohol off the list? Why was that Sophie?

Woman returns home after ground-breaking eye surgery
A Hobart woman who was left blind and paralysed after an adverse reaction to antibiotics has arrived back in Tasmania after undergoing ground-breaking eye surgery in Singapore.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1887190.htm

What if like I am you're allergic to alcohol? How do you party?

New ADHD drug to go on PBS?
Yeah, if they don't like school, cure 'em with Strattera. Not only will it make them pay a bit of attention (or maybe puke and nod off) in class, it will stop the boys playing with themselves (sexual dysfunction) and encourage some of the trouble makers to go and top themselves (suicidality). A great all round choice for dealing with problem kids. The odd liver failure is a small price to pay.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143486.php

Why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines
"Vaccines contain many toxic substances that are needed to prevent the vaccines from becoming infected or to improve the performance of the vaccine. Among these substances are mercury, formaldehyde and aluminum."
http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/04/10/332.aspx
http://indymedia.us/en/2007/04/24169.shtml

Consuming and Indulging anything
How to deal and balance indulgence the best?
By having choices. Questions you need to ask yourself...

1) Lethal: Is this a lethal substance?

2) Moderation: How often do you take the substance?

3) Limit: How much do you take at one time?

4) Balance: Do you take the same substance all the time?

"work is the curse of the drinking classes" (Oscar Wilde)

live and die the way you want .. but do it well and make your presence felt while you're here, "Rage, rage, RAGE, against conservatives (B S Peltiot)

Some decade ago I noticed that my drinking was becoming a liability to my anarchist activism and so I dropped out.
I was lucky to land up somewhere where I could access goldtop mushrooms ( active ingredient, psylocibin) and so with measured doses of dried psylocibin was able to cut down on my drinking. LSD, psylocibin and DMT or ectstasy have much the same chemistry. They should not be illegal and adulterated imho. They are not addictive or physically dangerous like alcohol most demonstrably is.
I would not dare extrapolate my experience as blue collar reformed wino without some hard scientific peer reviewed, placebo controlled and double-blind trials to check this but the fact prohibition of some drugs is a highly dangerous and failed policy to rival Iraq should be obvious to the most brain damaged cop or corporate journalist hack.

I'm all for rational discussions and information dissemination about the causes and effects of substance abuse.

Although, I'd like to expand the discussion to include the dangers of people who use such issues to project and externalise their own neurotic obsessions.

In fact, I suspect the actions of OND (Obsessive Nannying Disorder) sufferers actually drives others to substance abuse.

I don't know that we need to tax OND sufferers into oblivion (an office of OND Corrections might be somewhat cumbersome afterall), but, I'm sure we'd all benefit if there was an awareness campaign to enlighten all of us about the types of behaviour characterised by OND and how those behaviours subsequently effect others.

pigs, informers and straights always trip up on sub-cultural knowledge -- DMT is not related to ecstasy which is MDMA ...

'you will know them by their stupid blunders'

who coined the expression "substance abuse" cos it wasn't anyone in my circle .. maybe the DEA or AMA ... don't ya jus lov to spot mindless slaves who adopt the language of the ruling elites

The first victim of WAR is language ... and this place is full of real 'indypendent thinkers', isn't it?

jus heard a news report from the pigs stating they'll be in the face of biker clubs at all times... unless you ride you have no idea have amusing that statement is ... oink!

Maybe you've got more politically and clinically correct terms for "substance abusers" and "addicts"...like junkie, smack head, speed freak, alco, pisshead etc etc? Or maybe these states are just cultural constructs and I'm oppressing these people by not being able to appreciate their free and independant mental states and internal beauty? Hmmm, you sound like some pontificating wanker living in a cotton wool cocoon. Time to go out and see the real world Mr "I'm a real revolutionary dude" and report back to us about this "stuff" and what happens when you take "too much" and have an overwhelming impulse to take more even when you know it is "fucking you up".

"mindless slaves who adopt the language of the ruling elites" Indeed!

How about "mindless slaves who adopt reactionary stances in the vain hope of convincing people they are actually the worthy successors to (their deranged notions of) ruling elites"? Whenever I hear the phrase "ruling elites" I'm convinced the utterer is confirming their "slave" identity.

How can you expect to be taken seriously when you come across like the revolutionaries in "The Life of Brian"?

"Ruling elites" my fucking arse. Piss off idiot.

u may have me confused with ur own projections. leaders are almost as stupid as followers, wanker

leaders are almost as stupid as followers...

Mmmm, great words indeed, fuckstick. Remember, a leader without followers is a guy taking a walk.

Take a walk, turd.

The indigenous folks used to sum all this up by saying
"why pay a white man to poison you ?"
Sure there is place for a ritual ceremonial
mid-winter alcohol/fermented or distilled revelry which the Xtians turned into Xmas etc
smoke some tbacco on the moon cycle
etc
BUT to get pissed and smoke every day is going to fuck up your lungs and liver for sure.
So we do not need teetotal Xtians or Muslims etc banning such paractices but as the aboriginal comunities have shown to deal with addictions you need "dry areas" sometimes to detox and get over self and abuse of others eh ! ?
In capitalism though you need $ to get detoxed so the poor tend to get addicted to opium/gin/wine/beer/spirits/heroin/speed/ice/hashish whatever as their lot is to labour away until they are too useless for the exploiters. Given such miserable "life" is it any wonder that the State through taxation has regulated the soma/vodka etc which pacifies the proles...the rich always have access to the finest malt whiskeys' purest marijuana etc the plebs buy what the marketeers be they legal or illegal businessmen profit.

everyone here is a frustrated chief with the exception of the person who rightly cited and withdrew from the dichotomy of leaders and followers -- but to return to the point, 'meandering fuckstick'.

The entire approach so far is these chemicals are the 'demons' when in fact they are inert compounds -- the decision to ingest is YOURS and therein lies the problem.

Ritual use aside -- as it is very infrequent -- abusers of self by any means whatsoever are losers, the best kind. legalise all drugs of abuse and watch the losers self-destruct is really doing these losers a favour and relieving the ret of us of dead weight!

THE PROBLEM IS YOURS IF INDEED THERE IS A PROBLEM - it could simply be viewed as a weeding process.

But its all academic, VERY soon it WILL be the time of THE QUICK AND THE DEAD.

Are you prepared or more accurately ARE YOU ABLE?????????

Judging by the inane comments so far ... LOL!!

The first thing we learn when we abandon nappies is taking responsibility for OUR actions and psychological state ... wank on losers, and if that doesn't satisfy then resort to chemicals, escapist dreamboats!

LIFE IS W-A-R ... the sooner you understand and learn to F-I-G-H-T the better .. the option is DEATH!

wake up kiddies everyone is in it for themselves, no one gives a fuck in Oz ... that's why we immigrated .. this place is paradise for our likes ROFL, u useless shits.

Howard wouldn't have made it to first base anywhere esle (but Oz) you bunch of pathetic skids .. time to FACE IT!!!!

The latest figures from the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) show the number of drug arrests has risen in the last year, but the amount seized has fallen.

The Federal Government claims it is proof it is winning the war on drugs.

The Australian Crime Commission says more than 75,000 people were arrested for drug offences and more than six tonnes of drugs were seized last year.

Federal Justice Minister, David Johnston, says that is good news.

"More people arrested certainly, but the weight is less," Mr Johnston said.

"And I think that's the significant focus I want to bring."

Cannabis is still the most prevalent drug making up about 70 per cent of arrests, but the commission has also been targeting the production of amphetamines.

The commission says the number of clandestine labs detected in Australia has stabilised and organised crime gangs will probably try to import more drugs such as ice and ecstasy.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1920610.htm

Fuck the mainstream media.
Make grassroots your reality.

add your COMMENTS

attribution is necessary at times BUT do YOU have a problem with 'OUR' ABC -- the one that seems to have aversions to nailing war criminals and delinquent prime ministers .. david hicks and 650,000 dead civilians should be difficult to dismiss but not for OUR ABC -- it's up for the challenge!

'ow about 45 minute Blair with US Colin Powell and his mobile chem labs and WMD and the local effort, aluminium tubing johnny.

3 leaders of coalition, 3 BIG lies and THREE culpable conservatives.

We're up for it John .. we promise never to mention it your open secret is safe with us!!!

Don't you dare criticise OUR AB Fuckin C

it is true that leaders actually reflect the mass mind and character of the nation, Blair and Bush fit perfectly don't they? So does that dork and lackey coward Howard, which of course means that the majority of Aussies are scared, lackey, dorks too (FACE IT, skids -- ur the world's laughing stock)

a nation of gastrics ... pure liquid shit.

Someone might get a mind to nuke all the capital cities and just use the place as a mining resource -- who needs aussies anyway ... all our leaders have diminished the Australian character to ZERO .. and the band played on

It was a paradise once (thank christ i lived it) .. and then it weas sold to transnationals to rape.

it was given over to lackey leaders to fight it out for leadership ... KRudd today blatantly stated he was a fiscal "conservative".

That fag brown actually cracked a funny, said we have one old fiscal conservative and one young fiscal conservative running.

i wanna vote for an autistic savant at least they have an extraordinary talent ... run run run .. someone please run !

rock salt
by stories from the AB fucking C Saturday May 12, 2007 at 04:53 AM

Now you're talking! It's what I'm all about. I wanna hear peoples IMHO's I just don't wanna see reposts from the AB fucking C all the time. It gives them more credit than what they deserve.

Independent media should be more than just reactions to the mainstream media. It really makes it hard to think outside the box when somebody is constantly showing you where the edges and the 4 corners are.

I acknowledge your purpose and persistence, and to a certain extent your importance. But mybe make a Parrot Blog and link to that? Could be good.

You say, "Please Stop Posting
by all these stories from the ABC Friday May 11, 2007 at 11:47 PM

Fuck the mainstream media.
Make grassroots your reality."

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We posted the original article and we reserve the right to post any article and any comment attached to it either outside or inside the goal posts!

If you want to make something of it then post your own!

Communication is a two way street!

Why don't you go back to SIMC down the hole with the rock on top and dictate to them about how you would like to see the world?

They need robots like you!

If we did that for you then just what would be your next command?

Yes master!

Why shouldn't the fact be on the record here that 70 percent of people were busted for the least harmless drug of choice and a herb cannabis? Opposed to the dangers of legal drugs?

How does that win the war on danger?

Why shouldn't many things ... but the principal reason is the system is rotten to the core. its manipulated by those in whose interest it is to legalise 'this' and criminalise 'that' -- they also make it impossible for any one with any integrity or conscience to succeed in government -- 2 conservatives are now running for office -- the man doesn't care which one of his puppets wins, does he?

WHY, indeed!

its has nothing to do with logic, sense or justice .. the operative words are despotism and corruption.

when you realise the man is a thief and killer you will either fight him or learn to suck his cock.

a hard rain's gonna fall, my blue eyed son .. btw, who owns that dick in your arse??

People who binge drink don't eat to good. People who smoke herbs eat well. If people don't eat to good they don't replace vital healing compounds and are not reparing any resultant damage that may be caused to the body because of taking drugs.

So that it stand to reason which is least lethal. So if 98 percent of people die from alcohol and cigaretts then why are the cops busting 70 percent of people who take the least harmful herb cannabis? It doesn't pay tax!