15th August 2005, 9:43 AM
Prohibition... Many people had good intentions hoping to curb things like domestic violence and so on by banning it. They later had to admit with all their good intentions, the law had failed. The law actually managed to allow a substantial mafia to take hold. Breaking the law became a favorite past time for Americans at large. There were other factors, for example they lived in a time where the criminals could actually outgun and outrun the police, but to say that prohibition wasn't the major factor of the violence in that era would be ignorant... So, now we have a constitution that ammends itself purely to say "that one adjustment? Yeah, cancel that, excepting state law". Alcohol has been around for just too frickin' long, ever since someone ate some grapes that were out in the sun for too long...
Hard to say if banning it is the right way to go (most likely not), but educating people even more strongly than the "Dare" problem may help. It might also help if "Dare" wasn't lame. I'm surprised with as much info as I was fed (mostly correct, but some of it was straight propaganda, the propaganda part might be best eliminated), that any kids actually would start doing drugs. I don't know if it was peer pressure or rebellion, but I just didn't get why anyone "in this day and age" would just start doing that.
Anyway, there is a reason I go "clean" when it comes to addictive substances. Heck, I even chill out on the caffiene. I'm not "resisting" anything, I don't even think about it until someone brings it up and I can be around it without the slightest internal "need" to consume any of it. If you don't have an addiction, there's no resisting needed. I only point that out because a few people seem to get it in their heads that I'm actually just "resisting a good thing" because I'm a prude or something. There's just no resistance involved, and there won't be until I actually drink or smoke for the first time and those chemicals affect my brain. And, I don't do that not because I don't want to "have fun" (I really don't know what I'm missing, that's how I can have a great time without them probably), but simply because of the clinical "dull" reasons of knowing I really don't want any chemical to rule over me that isn't really needed to survive.
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*eats a sugar sandwitch* ... What? You need sugars.... maybe not this much but....
Hard to say if banning it is the right way to go (most likely not), but educating people even more strongly than the "Dare" problem may help. It might also help if "Dare" wasn't lame. I'm surprised with as much info as I was fed (mostly correct, but some of it was straight propaganda, the propaganda part might be best eliminated), that any kids actually would start doing drugs. I don't know if it was peer pressure or rebellion, but I just didn't get why anyone "in this day and age" would just start doing that.
Anyway, there is a reason I go "clean" when it comes to addictive substances. Heck, I even chill out on the caffiene. I'm not "resisting" anything, I don't even think about it until someone brings it up and I can be around it without the slightest internal "need" to consume any of it. If you don't have an addiction, there's no resisting needed. I only point that out because a few people seem to get it in their heads that I'm actually just "resisting a good thing" because I'm a prude or something. There's just no resistance involved, and there won't be until I actually drink or smoke for the first time and those chemicals affect my brain. And, I don't do that not because I don't want to "have fun" (I really don't know what I'm missing, that's how I can have a great time without them probably), but simply because of the clinical "dull" reasons of knowing I really don't want any chemical to rule over me that isn't really needed to survive.
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*eats a sugar sandwitch* ... What? You need sugars.... maybe not this much but....
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)