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Originally Posted by Zachstar
But ask your average pot user and they will never dare to try Crack or Heroin because semi-ok drug education has taught them that those drugs are EXTREMELY dangerous and can cause you to drop dead with a single dose. So if supplies of those drugs tightened up even more then even less youngsters will dare try em.
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Highly dubious. Supplies of "dangerous" drugs will not be curtailed effectively by law-enforcement agencies. While I would advocate harsh, even draconian penalties against those who would sell drugs to children, it is ultimately the responsibility of said childrens' parents/guardians to kepp them away from such substances. As nice as a legal barricade against underage drug use would be, experience tells us that the police are rarely as clever as the criminals they seek to apprehend and the ratio of U.S. law-enforcement funding-to criminal activity proves it.
Even if society could somehow prevent some neglected, misguided youths from using dangerous drugs they will simply resort to another form of self-destruction. There is no shortage of gangs, underage prostituion or violence in the U.S. for them to subscribe to. And before you say that drugs cause them to participate in these activities consider the fact that tendencies toward the aforementioned vices have been and still are practiced by youths without the benefit of drugs.
There is no point in govenrment protection of those who cannot be prevented from destroying themselves.
Tragic? Yes.
Reprehensible? Certainly.
Preventable? Indubitably, no.