"the warlock society" wrote in message
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guilty until proven innocent; it's the american way!

This is sobering: http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php

According to "Law Enforcement Against Prohibition" the War on Some Drugs has
cost $44 billion dollars, put nearly 10,000 Americans in prison, and drugs
are cheaper and more accessible to kids and inmates now than alcohol or
cigarettes. The FBI keeps raiding the Lakota indians for growing
hemp--which the government taught and encouraged them to grow in the first
place--to feed their buffalo and livestock, and so Americans are being made
destitute for something that -looks- like marijuana.

I occasionally fish around to find statistics on the percentage of aviation
accidents in which drugs (and which ones) and alcohol are involved. It's
as ridiculous to believe there aren't pilots who use drugs out there as it
is to believe the are pilots who aren't alcoholics, chain smokers or
terrible drivers, but other than rare really -weird- snockered-pilot
stories, you don't hear much about it. I suspect that's because aviator
mentality is a little more disciplined and self-policing; we understand
what's at stake if they blow it, so I'm not gonna get loaded on beer or
Benadryl and go flying on a Friday night, but that doesn't mean I don't
drink beer.

A former acquaintance told me that she was first explosed to cocaine until
her mom starting hanging out with airline pilots in the early '80s, and
didn't get into it because if adults were doing it it clearly wasn't cool.
That's kind of a backwardass way to keep your kids off drugs, I guess. My
dad's "I brought you into the world, and I can make another one just like
you" worked pretty well. :

-c