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   From: pxhxz@cadence.com   
      
   In article <41c6e668-989a-40a4-9742-8870bb7fc65e@m11g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>   
   Brother Nate  writes:   
   >JohnR wrote:   
      
   >> Legalisation would remove a large   
   >> part of the "cool" associated with some drugs and doing something you   
   >> aren't supposed to be doing.   
      
   >The biggest thing that would remove the "cool" from any   
   >behavior is for young peoples' peer groups to stop acting   
   >like it's cool.   
      
   Nate, do you remember being a teenager?  The late teenage years are a time   
   of rebellion -- as it should be -- and one of the forms of rebellion is to   
   engage in "forbidden" activities.   
      
   This is part of human and teenage psychology.  It isn't peer groups that make   
   doing forbidden things "cool", it is the psychology of the forbidden, which is   
   typically known as the "forbidden fruit phenomenon".   
      
   Legalizing currently illegal drugs will do more to make them less cool than   
   any teenage peer group could do.   
      
   -Pete Zakel   
    (phz@seeheader.nospam)   
      
   "Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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