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To: Nanodik; cinFLA

The question was not doing drugs but buying them legally. Speaking of socialist 'harm reduction' schemes . . .


What kind of idiot [would] think it would be acceptable to sell or make available narcotics to individuals under 18 years old?


"Hello."


Q: Isn’t there a role for reasonable regulation of the sale of drugs to minors?

A: When you pass laws against consensual activities, whether for adults or children, you never get the result you want. When the drug war ends, which I think will happen in the next five years, I hope the federal government will stay completely out of it and different states will pass different laws. Perhaps all states will ban it for children. I don’t think that’s the best thing to do. It will have some perverse results. And some children will probably die. When you buy a legal drug, you know what it is. You don’t take an overdose by mistake. Heroin, incidentally, is not a particularly addictive drug.

301 posted on 12/29/2003 7:01:15 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
So you don't mind if minors do drugs so long as they can be incarcerated for it? I don't see that locking up 15 year olds for doing pot helps any individual or society as a whole.
304 posted on 12/29/2003 8:15:01 PM PST by Nanodik (Libertarian, Ex-Canadian)
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