Col, to use your term of abuse.......I'm afraid the "swill" is coming directly from you.

This subject is about "marijuana". Yet you're complaining about people "callously profiting from DEATH". You need to actually UNDERSTAND THE SUBJECT MATTER.

I'll ask you YET AGAIN.......do you know what marijuana is?

Col wrote. "drug peddlers are deserving of termination as atonement for the death they deal to their victims".

Seeing the subject matter is about Schapelle Corby's alleged importation of "MARIJUANA".........can you now back up your statement and tell everyone all about the massive death toll from smoking a marijuana joint.

Come on Col.....show us the proven, official, marijuana "DEATH" statistics.

Now Col, it VERY interesting that you TOTALLY ignore the massive death toll and abject human misery caused by the "DRUG" alcohol, and the massive death toll resulting from the use of the "DRUG" tobacco. Because of your double standards and selective morality, your posts deserve mockery. It OBVIOUS drug "deaths" are NOT your concern.......your concern obviously comes from other places.

My God, you don't even realise the subject matter in this topic is about "MARIJUANA IMPORTATION", so how is it even remotely possible to have a rational discussion with you on the actual topic? The answer........it's not possible.

I've now read other things you have written, and guess what? You fit the stereotype of a forum abuser......they are happy to insult others **BUT** as soon as they are insulted back they are the first to WHINGE, WHINGE and WHINGE about it, and blame everyone else but "themselves".

The drug we are talking about is "MARIJUANA".

Do you now "get it" Col?

Probably not!

Dear Col,

I've tried hard to be tactful.

But, I have to accept the fact
that you're going to remain "unrepentant,"
as you put it.

Margaret Thatcher, a "Dame" that I believe
you greatly admire, (democratic enough to
talk down to anyone), once said,

"Tact is the ability to tell a man he
has an open mind, when he has a hole in his head!"

Col,

I think you are blaming drugs for people's actions. I always thought you were a 'be responsible for your own actions' type of person? So you're quite consistent in telling your daughters the consequences of their actions in their relationship with you if they were to take drugs. But to say a drug is responsible for ruinned lives is a bit simplistic I think.

What I find in your zero tolerance attitude to drugs, is naivity. You say you have tried marijuana about 3 times, but do you know how rare it is for dope to bring on psychosis? How un-addictive it is? How the correlation between dope and schizophrenia could easily be schizophrenic people using marijuana to self medicate. If you want to understand the rarity of the problems drugs can cause, just look at the MASSIVE quantities that are found in drug busts. Hard line anti drugs people like yourself seem to be in denial about how widespread drug use is by people in all walks of life, functioning normally and living fulfilled, honest lives. If I'm full of it, where are all the psychotic people to match the quantities of the massive marijuana plantations continually found?

When a whole container ship filled with cocaine is found, just how many people do you think are using the drug? The biggest lie about drugs is the government sponsored crap about it being a fringe activity, and that everybody who uses drugs is an addict stealing to support their habbit.

There's a better case for McDonalds to be illegal and reprehensible than marijuana.

CJ,

'This is, of course, why some people have to resort to anecdote and vitriol in order to justify their untenable positions with respect to recreational drugs - reason and hard evidence don't help their case, so insult and invective are deployed instead. I think that any reasonable reader of this thread will easily deduce who I'm talking about here.'

You really are a wuss aren't you. Why do you cowardly address people in the third person? Just say you don't agree with Col. It just shows your sheer arrogance the way you talk 'about' people, in your pseudo-intellectual superior way.

And you're no stranger to 'insult and invective' yourself anyway.

Well I'm glad you've got that off your chest, Whitty. Feel better now?