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Subject: Re: Has the Government reaped its' reward for the cannabis fiasco? Posted on: Sat, 3 May 2008 10:31:06 +0000 (UTC)

On May 3, 10:56=A0am, Dr John Watson
wrote:
> I notice that the Government got a well-deserved kicking in the local
> elections, losing 331 councillors.
>
> London also elected dope-smoking, cocaine-snorting Boris Johnson as mayor.=

> London is flooded with cocaine, as a BBC analysis of bank notes showed a
> few years ago.
>
> I quite like Boris, he's quite intelligent, despite his appearance as a
> buffoon.
>
> Gordon Brown's well-leaked intention to reclassify cannabis to class B,
> whilst appeasing the Daily Maul and our Scientology friends, doesn't seem
> to have been so well received by the more intelligent areas of society. It=

> could have lost Labour 3,000,000 votes.

And are you suggesting that bread and butter issues like:

Food inflation. fuel/energy inflation, mortgages, 10% tax band
abolition, fear of crime, immigration somehow featured secondary in
Londoners' coonsiderations when compared with the availability of
drugs?

I think you'll find that the detection of cocaine on banknotes is more
of a testimony to the sensistivity of the detection method used than
the prevalence of cocaine use.

Not every possessor of a banknote contaminated with cocaine is a
cocaine user. Not every such note has ever been in the possession of a
user. I think you'll find the culprits are rollers found in banknote
sorting machinery and ATMs through which banknotes pass many times
during their lives.