It's a valid point about harm reduction, Chris, as well as the way drugs are
employed, at a remove, by the 'State'. One could extend both thoughts to
licit drugs as well.
Best
Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: one more with feeling - Life is a drug....(Safety or not
safety?)
> On Monday 31 December 2001 21:37, you wrote:
>
> >
> > All the rest, your misrepresentation of my efforts to e-mail data of
> > (medical) risk-taking, on the issue of Ecstasy, is deeply demoralizing.
So,
> > please, from now on, keep monologuing. No moral issue was in question
here,
> > but you insist talking this language, and you refuse to face the fact
that
> > you are dismissing the health aspects of the problem.
>
> The health problems are a good point. Most leading illicit drug research
> internationally is being carried out under the term "harm reduction". This
> understands the fact that people take drugs. The problem is then not to
stop
> people using drugs but reducing the potential harm of drugs. But the
biggest
> problem is the fact that illicit drugs are used by the capitalist state as
a
> divide and rule strategy in order to keep the state capitalist. (Taken
> from a verbal address given by Dr Sam Freidman, Senoir Research Fellow,
NRI,
> NY, in Sydney.) Very cynical and very sad, for sure.
>
> Illicit drugs have become a vector in a cruel cybernetic social control
> system deployed by the capitalist state, otherwise known as social
> engineering. The only solution: REVOLUTION!
>
> best wishes
>
> Chris Jones.
>
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