Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!KESTREL.ARPA!king From: king@KESTREL.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.politics Subject: Drugs Message-ID: <12236094602.58.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Wed, 3-Sep-86 19:55:08 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12236094602.58.MCGREW Posted: Wed Sep 3 19:55:08 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Sep-86 03:50:30 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: king@kestrel.ARPA Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 28 Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu Date: Fri, 22 Aug 86 23:32:57 EDT From: "Keith F. Lynch" [ Who pays for the cops who keep drugs out of the hands of kids? Do these laws that keep drugs out of kids hands include their parents? If a parent chooses to give drugs to his child, is it legal? Well, this all seems to work pretty well for alcohol and tobacco. I never said ALL of the world's problems will go away if we adopt a libertarian system. Kids will still get drunk. Teenagers will still try marijuana and cocaine. At least the marijuana won't contain paraquat, and the cocaine won't contain strychnine. I read a few weeks ago that a 4 year old kid playing on the front steps of his apartment downtown pricked himself on a discarded needle. He got AIDS apparently from that needle. If drugs and drug paraphernalia had been widely available this would not have happened. Why? Freely available needles would never be discarded? I would expect to see as many needles in the roadside litter as I now see discarded cigarette packs and beer cans. Perhaps the state would impose a deposit so I wouldn't lose too many bicycle tires to discarded hypos :-) -dick -------