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lurkette · 10-25-2003, 09:45 AM

Your letter makes the other guy look like an idiot. Which he is.

To voice my own opinion, I think raising the drinking age to 25 would just create more closet binge drinking. If you look at Europe where the drinking age is much LOWER than in the US, I think the stats show they have far less alcohol abuse and far fewer alcohol related deaths among young adults. Making something illicit only raises its cachet.

I think our efforts at regulating illegal drugs would be better spent on prevention and treatment than on the level of draconian enforcement we have now. A first-offense druge possession (POSSESSION, not selling) charge in some places carries a heavier sentence than a rape charge. This is insane. I don't know about full legalization, but it seems to me that at least marijuana should be decriminalized, and that if we want to decrease drug-related crimes the government should take over production and distribution and tax the hell out of drug sales. Seems to me that "prohibition" isn't working so maybe we ought to try something else.

10-25-2003, 09:45 AM	#9 (permalink)
lurkette My future is coming on Moderator Emeritus Location: east of the sun and west of the moon	Your letter makes the other guy look like an idiot. Which he is. To voice my own opinion, I think raising the drinking age to 25 would just create more closet binge drinking. If you look at Europe where the drinking age is much LOWER than in the US, I think the stats show they have far less alcohol abuse and far fewer alcohol related deaths among young adults. Making something illicit only raises its cachet. I think our efforts at regulating illegal drugs would be better spent on prevention and treatment than on the level of draconian enforcement we have now. A first-offense druge possession (POSSESSION, not selling) charge in some places carries a heavier sentence than a rape charge. This is insane. I don't know about full legalization, but it seems to me that at least marijuana should be decriminalized, and that if we want to decrease drug-related crimes the government should take over production and distribution and tax the hell out of drug sales. Seems to me that "prohibition" isn't working so maybe we ought to try something else. __________________ "If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France