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We had an article in the local paper crying about a local "kid" who....

Reminds me of an article that ran in the local bird cage liner where I am. There was this huge article about this 17 year old boy that was killed by police back in the summer and it was all about how this was "such a good boy", "so quiet", "so well liked", "the police got off scott free with murder", "his teen-aged friends don't know who to trust", etc ad nauseum. Well, come to find out this kid had been at a party with his friends about two weeks before school started. He was driving home when the police tried to pull him over and he took off. When they finally got to him he refused to get out of the car, revved the engine, and tried to run one of the officers over. Guess what? This teen pillar of the community was high and had been drinking at the time. I would think that the weed this boy had been smoking would have something to do with his actions (as well as the alcohol). How bout you?

(as well as the alcohol)

Oh, no, alcohol is legal and that means its use can't cause any problems. < /sarcasm >

This teen pillar of the community was high and had been drinking at the time. I would think that the weed this boy had been smoking would have something to do with his actions (as well as the alcohol). How bout you?

Maybe. However, since the percentage of people who smoke weed and drink and try to kill people with their car is extremely small, I'd say they have little to do with it at all....

I would think that the weed this boy had been smoking would have something to do with his actions (as well as the alcohol). How bout you?

Or perhaps this 17 year old was so frightend of the results (legal, parental, other...) of being busted he chose to try and flee. Poor judgement to be sure, but 17 year olds have been known to exhibit such even when they're stone cold sobre. Given that the cops are starting to shoot people in no-knock raids on their homes for even being accused (sometimes falsely) of drug use/dealing... well, you get the idea.

There was an article here on FR a month or so ago about how such things were dealt with in the past; before the WOD. Church, community, family, peer review all came into play. Indeed, I know someone who damn near ruined his life because of cocaine. It wasn't the courts or rehab, loss of wealth or jail; none of those turned him around. It was us, the people who loved him. We didn't give up on him, but each inour own way made damn sure we let him now how we all felt about it. All those things finally took their toll, and he just up and quit. Yea, he could still get it if he wanted to, but he doesn't and he's happy about it. I have my friend back.

Pot? I don't like it, some people do. I've never seen anyone get violent on it. The worse someone might do on pot is drive too slow, or come to a stop at a light 5 car lengths back, or some other stuff like that. I don't believe it to be addictive. So I figure we could legalize it; get the drug lords out of the loop, tax the hell out of it (it would probably still make it cheaper than the black market), apply similar laws for age and motor vechicle use as alcohol; employers could mandate no use during business hours (like they most all do regarding booze) and be done with it.

At least pot is 100% natural, the way God made it. These new designer drugs are more troubling. And with genetic engineering getting more commonplace and sophisticated; that problem is only going to get worse. Pot is the least of our worries and the WOD, the way its being fought now, is a bust.

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