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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2728fb$0$2950$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Pavement cyclist fined. Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:14:03 +0100 References:  <98omi7FbppU1@mid.individual.net> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <98omi7FbppU1@mid.individual.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: d74294db.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=Y9g;C`ETPPkaogEM\ChbAgYjZGX^207Pk`<43>Em\0mIFYk > Those drug-possession penalties seem very lenient. A deliberate and > defiant anti-social crime*.

Beats me why otherwise sensible people so often can't see how arbitrary it is to permit alcohol and tobacco use but not cannabis. The only reason ever offered seems to be "that's just the way it is and has been for a long time"...it's certainly nothing to do with the relative dangers of the drugs concerned. I'm surprised that someone like you would be satisfied with that.

If someone grows cannabis at home for their own personal use, then uses it there, I can't see what's remotely antisocial about it either. If no-one else is affected by it, or even knows that it's happening, then how bad (or antisocial) can it be?