On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:02 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's Bill, actually, and no, I'm not implying a grudge. > Saskatoon, just a couple of hours from me has Temperance St. > My point was that this sort of thing doesn't work. > Tried and failed was the point, not where it happened. > Take this for what it's worth, coming from someone who has never raised a > child, but to me, it would seem that it would be better to have your kid > falling down drunk with his friends in the TV room than at a bush party that > he is going to drive home from. > By instilling a prohibition, we force what they are going to do anyway into > the worst possible way of doing it. Prohibition worked about as well as criminalizing narcotics (especially marijuana). The stuff is readily available, relatively cheap and its use is ubiquitous in some groups. Funny, but since pot's been decriminalized here (simple use - as opposed to trafficking - is basically as serious as a parking ticket) use hasn't skyrocketed. A couple of summers ago, due to a court decision, pot was basically legal for a couple of months until Parliament resumed in the autumn and passed a law to plug the loophole. People were smoking the stuff even more openly that year, but actual usage didn't go up. All prohibition does is fill jails and clog courts who could be spending their time dealing with real criminals. cheers, frank (no, I don't smoke pot) -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
