On 2/10/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On 8 Feb 2006 at 22:49, Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/8/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
But you would impose US law even in a country where smoking weed is legal.
Given that most of our users and most significant press coverage is American, yes. That is why I drew the line there. Yes, I know it isn't perfect. But it's better than anything else I've seen.
But it's not against U.S. law to discuss, or advocate, smoking weed. After all, "High Times" magazine is published in the United States. Some of the government's drug warriors have wished they could ban all advocacy of drug use as well as the drug use itself, but so far the First Amendment has stopped them.
No. But it's bad publicity to say that we accept people who break the law and proclaim it proudly. No, it's not a legal necessity. But it is a public relations matter, and I see no reason why it should not be applied.
Can anyone think of an alternative line to draw?
-- Sam