Letters to the Editor
Sandy Yago
Published Letters: 86 Editor's Choice: 3
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Meth & Meth
[Read the article: My beautiful, drug-addicted boy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Methamphetamine is the Methanol of our generations.
Thousands died or got blinded from methanol while alcohol was prohibited. No one would have been exposed to methanol had alcohol not been illegal.
Fast forward to the last third of the 20th century and on. The "war on drugs" which would be laughable weren't it the case that it is the source of immense crime and misery, resulted in a push towards creating mind altering substances whose main reason of existing is that it is easy to manufacture them in uncontrolled, small scale operations. No attention is paid to how bad those drugs are and the manufacturing process is necessarily shabby.
It would be hard to find a better example for the insufficiency of the average human IQ than the wide scale acceptance of the illegality of "substances". Alcohol was re-legalized when it became clear that its use continued anyway, that unsafe substitutes appeared causing death and disease, that it lead to the increase in crime because A, addicts had to become criminals by biological necessity and B, criminalization of a behavior attracts criminals.
There is not an iota of difference between the prohibition of alcohol and any other mind altering substances, considering their consequences. Yet, it goes on.
Sometimes one has to wonder: dolphins may be more intelligent than people after all.
If at least the "war" would go on effectively. Using drugs is not necessary for being alive and it is wrought with inherent dangers, so if they could be REALLY eliminated, it would be a good thing. But as long as there is an iota of freedom, people will make and use mind altering substances. Only in something like a subterranean salt mine could the "war" triumph.
Which brings up a question: WHY do people use drugs? Maybe because "they like it?"
Good luck getting a research grant on that.
The madness is further complicated by the fact that the drug warriors exaggerate, the pro-egalizers minimize the negative effects of drugs.
Even in this article, methamphetamine's effect on the brain was described in a hugely simplistic manner. There is no one single way meth affects brains. There are people who are severely hooked for good, others are hooked but can kick it with great effort, yet others get hooked but it burns out and they stop spontaneously, yet others feel so lousy from the first dose that they never touch it again, yet others can remain casual users for life.
You could say the same things about alcohol. Yet alcohol remains legal despite it being a factor in motor vehicle accidents, violence, chronic use can cause dementia, liver cirrhosis, cancer, psychosis.
I'll stay friendly with the dolphins, you never know when you need a friend.
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The point is not how you survive law school. It's that you shouldn't.
[Read the article: Lowering the bar ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gotta problem with that?
Sue me.
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jenbynight is right: there are literally thousands of good people who are also good lawyers
[Read the article: Lowering the bar ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's that other one million that gives those thousands a bad name.
Besides, lawyering is just "their job. It's not who they are."
Yep, a disgusting job but someone has to do it. It's like when my pipes get clogged, I call the sewer man and when I burn myself with hot water I call the sue-er man.
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You bet I'm offended!
[Read the article: Are you offended by a tampon ad with a beaver?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As I am offended by the picture of milk in a jug.
A woman holding a hoe.
Two hills in the distance.
Hourglasses in any context.
Muffling sounds.
The word "below".
The term "wide berth".
Pillows.
Bushes.
Pendulums.
Life.
The Universe.
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Yes, I'm that special. Love me!
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I don't care about the topic, Evilbush did something, yadda yadda
[Read the article: Bush "envious" of U.S. troops in Afghanistan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm just trying to get to my letters link and there is no other way to do it than making a new posting.
Yes, I should have made a bookmark but I forgot. And no, my history is empty, I went to some porn sites last nite after which I was forced to empty my cache. So sue me. Salon should have a link to one's own letter collection once logged in.
Anyway, might as well tell you that we had a blustery day in San Diego, froze my ass of in the 65 degree wind and the bromeliad nursery I drove to Encinitas for had gone bust months ago. Some fox tail palms were on sale at Home Depot but it was a poor consolation.
And now it's raining.
Life is hard.
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By golly, they have already started it! 2007 has been an unusually cold year.
[Read the article: Obama and Clinton plan to cool it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These democrats! My god, how did they do it? Majick?
Did they inhale large amounts of carbon dioxide? Democrats can really do it? No, no, no, holy shit, they must have some powertful God, these democrats! Maybe I should convert to democratianity! Or is it democlam? Whatever, that's one powerful sonovabitch up there, I'm tellin ya!
Reason has no chance against Him, that's for sure.
"Her!" - I'm sorry, it's "Her", not "Him", let's do it the correct way.