Alcohol-related illness soars as 1 in 18 addicts get treatment

Cannabis would obviously kill many times that number, if it was legal.

Bullshit: check how many people dies for cannabis in Holland, where cannabis is legal.

D'oh.

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:49:11 +0000,Phil Stovell, wrote

Phil was being sarcastic or ironic, I can't easily distinguish between the two modes of typing myself but he was being humorous.

I wonder which moduality of cannabis action would lead to death on a large scale. Perhaps if it was really strong you would forget to exhale? Or maybe when you bought that ounce you would spend your food and rent money because you forgot about those vital matters and die on the street because of the Assassin of Youth. ;^)

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-- bobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed, the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning. It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion." --from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.

I suppose you could drown in a 200 foot high inkwell after it turned you into a bat.

Tut, tut..., now HOW many times have I told you that irony does not work on usenet?

Does coppery?

I would say it was a bitterly ironic straw man argument, but that's me...