Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 10:21:55 +0200 (MET DST)
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re: A few thoughts about morality and drugs


>Any question of "the morality of illicit drugs" is dumb.  There has been
>reasonably good marxian analysis of the "war on drugs" on this list before
>that was much better than that.  The particular drugs which have been
>illegalized by this governement at this time in history are hardly the things
>we should accept as inherently evil.  If people were not desparately in pain,
>they probably wouldn't be taking so many mind-numbing and euphoria-producing
>chemicals, and if public money was spent to provide treatment to those who
>want it, it would be much more sensible.  In the mean time, more people die
>from alcohol in this country every year than all the illegal drug-related
>deaths put together, including the gang wars.  Which still doesn't hold a
>candle to the death, pain, suffering and medical expense of tobacco...
>
>
I agree with you. I also think that the oil business causes far more harm to 
poor and working class people. But communists can not be just for or 
against. It is not enough..
malecki in exile..




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