This proposal is completely rediculous and arbitrary. Like putting a special tax on strawberry ice cream.
But virtually all laws are like that, beyond the laws that everyone has (laws against violence, theft, etc.). Once you get past the government doing policing to preserve peace, and it turns into a social democracy where the state is also supposed to enforce the social views of the politically powerful, you are always going to have completly arbitrary and horribly complex laws like this. From drug laws (It is OK to buy an sell alchohol, an addictive and harmful to your liver drug, but not marjuana, which is non-addictive and won't drestroy your liver is illegal)... to "hate speech" (it is illegal most places to say that the haulocost never happened, but I can deny the Turks milled millions of Armenians and Kurds without any legal repercussions)... to traffic safety (if I accidently kill another motorist and I am sober, I won't be punished even remotely as bad as if I drank or did drugs before hand - even though the end result is the same).
It's odd. Here I was thinking Republicans where in favour of less government, more free enterprise?
Are you kidding? By any objective measure G.W. Bush is more a Socialist than Hugo Chavez. The only difference really is the rhetoric they use to justify their policies. But how they actually run the governnment is quite similiar.
Sure it does. Methamphetamines can be used for medicinal purposes.
And, in fact, until recently (when they started putting cold medicines behind the pharmacist counter and forced people to fill out a form to be given to law enforcement in many states), Meth was manufactured from non-prescription cold medicine.
and I was only humoring the notion that Meth does no good.. and really.. the meth used as an illegal drug is in far to great a dose and under the wrong conditions to be helpful in any way.
Of course, the whole arguement that many people give is circular. "METH IS BAD FOR YOU, THEREFORE IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL" - But the active ingredient of Meth is found in legal drugs - "BUT THOSE ARE LEGAL DRUGS!!! METH IS BAD BECAUSE IT IS ILLEGAL!!!" OK, Meth should be illegal because it is bad, and it is bad because it is illegal.
alternatively you can just drink red grape juice or green tea to get the flavonoids. Also tomatoes, brocolli, soy all contain flavonoids. Often the "pro" alcohol lobby says "red wine is good for you" but let's face it, the human body wasn't designed to run on alcohol i.e. to be poisoned every day.
Except that alchohol is an anti-oxident, like vitamine C, so it provides other benifits beside flavonoids.
The fact is, traditional French and Italian cooking is some high-fat, high cholesteral stuff. Yet, they seem to have fewer heart attacks and less obecity than many people who eat much "healther" diets. Unless we assume that it is some genetic thing (which is unlikely, given the wide genetic diversity in those populations - we are not talking Rapa Nui here), the major diet difference is in wine consumption. I have heard some people say that something in wine reduces the absorbtions of fats and unhealthy forms of cholesterol.