XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs
From: pxhxz@cadence.com
In article <0L2dnZAb_Nc4zd7XnZ2dnUVZ8mmdnZ2d@bt.com> "Aidy" writes:
>> Kids will huff glue whether heroin is as cheap as a can of deodorant or
>> not.
>If heroin was legal do you believe that heroin would be legal to children?
Children shouldn't be able to buy it, but if they get it it would be better
if they got good-quality pharmaceutical heroin instead of street heroin cut
with who-knows-what.
>If heroin was legal and available to kids do you think kids would stop
>sniffing glue?
No. But if we legalized drugs and stopped lying about their effects, kids
would be more likely to listen if we told them sniffing glue was worse than
taking heroin.
>Sorry, I'm just trying to work out your point.
No, you're not. You're trying to construct new straw men to knock down.
The point is that prohibition causes more harm in general than would
legalization. In the US early last century we banned alcohol because of the
problems it caused. After a few years, we got smuggling, people dying due
to drinking badly made or mixed alcholic beverages that were tainted with
methanol, antifreeze, and who-knows-what. Also, the problem of underage
drinking actually increased even though alcohol was illegal. Not to mention
the corruption in law enforcement, and the general disregard for other laws
due to prohibition being so widely flouted. We repealed alcohol prohibition
because it turned out alcohol prohibition caused far more harm than did legal
alcohol.
Exactly the same principle applies to other currently illegal drugs.
-Pete Zakel
(phz@seeheader.nospam)
"The geographical center of Boston is in Roxbury. Due north of the
center we find the South End. This is not to be confused with South
Boston which lies directly east from the South End. North of the South
End is East Boston and southwest of East Boston is the North End."
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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