At 11:20 08/03/04, you wrote:
>alcohol can be used responsibly by the vast majority of people who are not
>alcoholics. If drugs were legalised, how would u ensure that an 18 yr old
>girl out on the town on saturday nite could do so?
What exactly is it that we do to _ensure_ that the 18 year old girl out on
the town uses alcohol properly? The fall out in terms of unwanted
pregnancies, STDs, emotional regrets, RTA injuries, assaults, involvement
with harder drugs often start with alcohol and tobacco.
Does criminalization with ineffectual and inadequate enforcement protect
anyone?
If you can't enforce a law, just as much as if it's a bad law for any other
reason, why not ditch it?
Julian
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