The sane, in other words, are ironic rather than fanatical in their pleasure seeking.
The problem is that most crazy customers have sane friends, and word of mouth travels fast these days.
Under the Durham Rule, whenever there is a plea of insanity supported by psychiatric evidence, the prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant is sane - in other words guilty.
Take out this one stumbling block, and the rest of federal marijuana policy can start to change to a realistic and sane approach, in other words.
If our government demanded that all animals slaughtered for human consumption actually be healthy, by any sane definition of the word, and if that regulation was actually enforced, the slaughter industry would be brought to its knees.
The arrangement was open, amicable and, in Swinton's words, "just so sane".
Given enough institutional advantages and enough pandering, in other words, even a sane man can persuade lunatics to vote for him.
Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity Sane, said: "These sorts of words often betray fear and ignorance rather than lack of sympathy.
E.L.: I think the watch-words are "safe, sane and consensual".
No wonder the problem tends, in Mr. Ormerod's words, "to lead otherwise sane and rational citizens to the heights of frenzied argument".
