[robertpaulsen]

"It doesn't work for alcohol..." It doesn't work PERFECTLY, no."

I don't expect perfection. But, I would accept "pretty well", or even "somewhat". You tell me how this "reasonable restriction" for alcohol is working:

Alcohol Use Among Students in the Past Month
8th Grade: 21%
10th grade: 39%
12th Grade: 50%

Marijuana use is about half that for each group, and teens say it's easier to get than alcohol.

Obviously there's something else at work here, and that something else is the legitimacy brought on by legalization. IMO.

[headsonpikes]

You ask how this 'reasonable restriction for alcohol is working?

Not as well as it could , but the 'leakiness' of the regulations - beer sold in grocery stores, etc - helps ease kids into the consumption of alcohol in a society in which such consumption is relatively central to much of non-family social life.

It would be better if more parents introduced wine at dinner moderately; if only because the object of drinking in isolation becomes to become drunk.

From my limited anecdotal knowledge of the current situation, it appears to me that hard liquor is properly quite difficult for most kids to obtain, although beer is just difficult enough to be thrilling. ;^)

I'm sure you desire the best for today's kids, but that has to include those rights to personal liberty that have been gradually anathematized by the modern smothering nanny state.

It's socialism, whether created by commissars or lawyers, and I intend to resist it by all means necessary, including and especially urging young people to defy wrongful authority.

[MrLeRoy]

the legitimacy brought on by legalization.

So why is the legal act of huffing so rare?