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Clarino · 10-29-2006, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by bandman

You are correct in everything you said above. I wonder how you would feel if I said that using your thought base that I think alcohol should also be a controlled substance?

Alcohol serves no functional purpose. Some drugs do serve a functional purpose for people like myself who have arthritis in their back, neck and shoulders. I would argue that alcohol, based on potential for abuse and potential for addiction should be controlled if certain drugs are also controlled.

I think it's important to point out the difference between drinking socially/responsibly and taking drugs recreationally. When one takes drugs one does so for the feeling that the drugs give you, the "high" if you will. When I drink I am not drinking to enjoy the sensation of the alcohol intoxication (and I certainly never drink with the goal of getting drunk[well, hardly ever]), I am drinking because I enjoy the taste of that particular drink. If I could get the same flavour from non-alcoholic beer/wine/whiskey, I would never consume alcohol.

Say what you like about weed, no-one I ever met smokes it because they like the taste of the smoke.

I think 40cal hit the nail on the head here, there simply aren't enough guys like you Dave who would use the drugs only when you need them. Therefore they need to be controlled to reduce the number of irresponsible people that get their hands on them and ruin their own or other's lives.