Posted on 01/30/2020 1:12:17 PM PST by C19fan
The parents of a Cornell freshman who was found dead at the bottom of a gorge after a hazing prank are suing the college and the fraternity he was joining the night he died.
Antonio Tsialas died in October last year after a night of brutal drinking and hazing with Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in Ithaca, New York, at a 'Christmas in October' party.
His body was found in a gorge and he had high levels of alcohol in his system but his family's attorney says his cause of death was multiple blunt force trauma to the body. They do not know how he sustained it.
In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, his parents accuse the university of turning a blind eye to the school's hazing culture and they name many of the fraternity's members, claiming they did nothing to save their son's life.
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Marijuana criminalization has failed to keep that drug away from young people; they have been reporting since well before any state had legalized that they could get marijuana almost as easily as cigarettes or beer, although the latter two are much more widespread among adults. The available evidence indicates that the best way of keeping a drug away from young people is to legalize it for adults - which gives its sellers an economic incentive to confine their sales to adults, namely the risk of losing their legal adult market.
Another benefit to the Republic of legalizing marijuana, as I alluded to in post #78, is diverting money from criminal hands.
Anyone who serves alcohol to minors is responsible for the injuries and damage they do, including to themselves, under the influence of the alcohol you gave them. It doesn’t have to be a fraternity - it can be a senior who does a beer run for underclassmen. This fraternity chapter used booze to haze their pledges and, IMO, will lose to the parents’ lawsuit. It deserves to as well. Dumb ****s.
“When multiple substances are illegal (or legal but onerously taxed), it’s no surprise to find criminals selling more than one of them”.
I’m maintaining “legal” marijuana is expanding the use of worse drugs—and I even forgot methamphetamines!
Nothing you've posted supports that contention.
“The CAC says the lackluster progress in displacing the black market is due to a combination of high taxes, local bans on pot shops, licensing bottlenecks, and heavy regulation.”
Like I said.
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