A new call for ignorance - (nf)
da...@ztivax.uucp
>much of the problem. I realize now it wouldn't do much good. At what
>age would it be legal to buy and use drugs? Twenty-one? What about
>the twelve year old who wants to experiment? The pusher in the school
>yard couldn't care less if the kid is underage.
This is a good point. I think an important _cause_ of the drug
problem is this minimum age for drinking. In Europe, one rarely finds
people who have even _experimented_ with drugs. They can go to
Disco's and pubs when quite young (no hard-line age limit seems to
exist). In America, kids who want to party can't, at least legally.
It always seemed stupid that high school kids can't buy beer, but
nobody ever asks for ID to buy dope...
Solve the problems, don't fuck around with the symptoms.
Adam Quantrill
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>I think an important cause of the drug problem is this minimum age for drinking
Cobblers!
>In Europe, one rarely finds people who have even _experimented_ with drugs.
>They can go to Disco's and pubs when quite young
>(no hard-line age limit seems to exist).
-Adam.
Ray White
>...........................................In Europe, one rarely finds
>people who have even _experimented_ with drugs......(etc.)
I have only one thing to say about that line....BULLSHIT!!
>
>It always seemed stupid that high school kids can't buy beer, but
>nobody ever asks for ID to buy dope...
>
Can't buy beer?....none of my high-school buddies ever had trouble
getting beer....one of them always had a "big brother" to help them
get it. By your reasoning removing the drinking age laws will reduce
the use of other (illegal) drugs. That maybe so, but only to a very
small extent, and the cost incurred (alcohalizm, increased automobile
fatalities, etc.) is certainly not worth it.
>
>Solve the problems, don't fuck around with the symptoms.
I hear lots of talk.... how about some action (too bad you don't
have the solution to the problem).
Mr. Nice Guy
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"No pain....No gain" - Arnold
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Chris Torek
>Can't buy beer?....none of my high-school buddies ever had trouble
>getting beer....one of them always had a "big brother" to help them
>get it. By your reasoning removing the drinking age laws will reduce
>the use of other (illegal) drugs. That maybe so, but only to a very
>small extent, and the cost incurred (alcohalizm, increased automobile
>fatalities, etc.) is certainly not worth it.
I cannot comment on much of this, for human actions have long
puzzled me. I have, however, wondered rather often whether
*lowering* the legal drinking age might have the same effect on
accident statistics as *raising* it. (Raising the drinking age
has been fairly well demonstrated to reduce alcohol-related automobile
accidents.) It may be that many teenagers are experimenting with
both as soon as convenient, and that they do not realise what a
terrible combination that makes.
[.signature territory, and an unrelated topic:]
>"No pain....No gain" - Arnold
A popular misconception, this should rather be rendered `no effort,
no gain'---or in its better-known form, `nothing ventured, nothing
gained'. (On the other hand, you may have a different definition
of `pain'.)
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