On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:08:36 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 3/10/2016 10:48 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:59:48 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>>> Politicians hardly want to burn their fingers on the issue and - not
>>>> irrelevant
>>>
>>> There is a lot of truth in that. They do not want to be seen to
>>> legalise a substance that they have been decrying for decades. I
>>> believe that there are several international treaties controlling the
>>> use of drugs and they would need to be revoked in case the wrath of
>>> the UN comes down on them.
>>
>> The same is true for legal pharmaceuticals here in the US as well.  The
>> FDA won't approve foreign drugs for use in the US, which really causes
>> us problems with drug prices.
>>
>>
> You are closer to Canada then you were. So that shouldn't be a problem
> for you. ;)
> 
> Seriously, you would think that someone had manufactured the system to
> maximise the profit.
> 
> I think we are back to:
> 
> On 3/10/2016 12:26 PM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>  > - the strength and resilience of the 'under'-world is a fair match to
>  > the 'upper'-world.
> 
> ;-)

That was precisely my thought (the latter, not the former ;) )

Jim



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