From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   Walter Bushell wrote:   
   > In article   
   > ,   
   >  Spencer Spindrift  wrote:   
   >   
   >> So what's the alternative? There are several models for the legal   
   >> provision of recreational drugs. They include prescription by   
   >> doctors, consumption at licensed premises or even sale on a similar   
   >> basis to alcohol and tobacco, with health warnings and age limits. If   
   >> this prospect appals you, consider the fact that in the US today,   
   >> many teenagers say they find it easier to buy cannabis than beer.   
   >   
   > Now that's a reason to keep pot illegal, suppose kids shift from pot   
   > towards beer -- the consequences could be dire.   
   >   
   	Kids have already been raiding Daddies & Mummies liquor cabinets   
   and more are using alcohol than ever before.  This is due to the   
   anti-cannabis propaganda spewed by the DEA.  I don't think either is   
   a good drug for teens to use as the brain can get used to these   
   chemical inputs in a way it cannot later in life.   
   	Just like friendship in childhood and first loves in adolescence can   
   be more affecting at those times of life, drug use can be more   
   affecting   
   to the child and youth.  The school curriculum is hard enough and   
   very   
   few young people will find their functions enhanced enough by any   
   drug to get the knowledge they will need faster.   
      
   	IMO   
   	later   
   	bliss   
      
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