-Caveat Lector- Tom went to this independence website sponsored by coors and wrote them a little letter...it is very good. Considering alcohol, tobacco, coffee, and even some sugars can be considered mind/sense/awareness altering drugs, Everyone is a drug user of some sort. Tom Barrus wrote: > > 20Sep99 > > "Independence" Institute: > > A friend suggested that I check out your web site <www.i2i.org>. > > On your home page, under Issue Pages I clicked on Personal Freedom and > Lifestyle Choice. > > How disappointed I was to see that you apparently do not have a basic > understanding of personal freedom that involves lifestyle choices. > > I imagine that this may be due to the fact that the primary source of your > funding comes from the drug pusher in Golden, Colorado. > > Now, I don't have a problem with drug pushers, provided they sell pure and > unadulterated drugs to adults only, and that they are honest and provide > both the "bad" effects of their drugs along with the "good" effects through > proper labelling. > > Unfortunately, Coors is not an honest drug pusher. Coors tries to hide the > fact that alcohol is pharmacologically interchangeable with Valium > (tm)/diazepam. Coors and the "Independence" Institute apparently support the > nonsense that is embodied in the pernicious phrase "alcohol and drugs" that > alcohol is somehow not the same as drugs, when in fact, alcohol is a drug > and is one that when misused accounts for the most harm from any drug use, > after tobacco drug use. > > Diazepam is a controlled substance. Alcohol should also be a controlled > substance, or else the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) should be repealed > and diazepam should be available for purchase at Applejack Liquors along > with the various dosage forms of alcohol, including Coors Light beer. > > Has Coors or the "Independence" Institute ever demanded that the government > be honest about drugs? > > Has Coors or the "Independence" Institute ever been honest about drugs > themselves? > > Has Coors or the "Independence" Institute ever demanded that the CSA be > repealed? > > Is Coors and its "Independence" Institute fundamentally hypocritical about > drugs? > > When you open your minds to acknowledge that personal freedom and lifestyle > choice involves the right of an adult to use ANY drug he/she chooses, > including the poisons alcohol and tobacco, and less harmful drugs such as > opium or coca, then I will respect your point of view. > > Let me know when you decide to be honest about the right of an adult to use > all drugs and not just the two most harmful drugs, tobacco and alcohol. > Until then, your hypocrisy speaks too loud for me to hear whatever good > things you may be trying to say. > > - Tom Barrus, drug user and proud of it > > (note: when I said "drug user", what came to your mind? How do you know that > I am not referring to my use of the drug aspirin? How do you know that I am > not referring to my use of some other drug? Does it matter which drug I am > referring to when I classify myself as a "drug user"?) > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > --- > To subscribe to the Constitutional Cannabis Patriots > send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Posting:To post to the Constitutional Cannabis Patriots > send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Constitutional Cannabis Patriots > http://www.teleport.com/~nepal/canpat.htm DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
