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Subject: Re: Drugs and draconian measures
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> Any connection between ultimate and drugs will slow the growth of
> the game.
> 
>                             Matt Lowe

Yes, in much the same way that the connection between 
snowboarding and drugs has prevented that sport from obtaining 
any recognition or sponsorship.  Less, tongue-in-cheekly, do you 
have any evidence to back up your statement?  The non-Daily Mail 
readers still form a considerable part of the population and can form 
opinions for themselves, they just might not condemn all 
recreational drug use out-of-hand, its even possible that there are 
quite a lot of people outside ultimate who actually use *and enjoy* 
recreational drugs, perhaps it is from these groups that ultimate will 
find the players to expand.  
Finally, if it's what you crave, there's both money and media in 
counter- as well as mainstream culture.

Peter Connor