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To: Know your rights

After re-illegalization, teen marijuana use in Alaska dropped to that of the lower 48.


184 posted on 12/18/2004 11:23:47 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
After re-illegalization, teen marijuana use in Alaska dropped to that of the lower 48.

Measured how?

Unless there are secret spy cameras in everybody's home, how are you going to know how many people are actually smoking pot? If the study used any sort of polls or surveys, the results are meaningless, since it is quite possible that legalization of pot would double the percentage of people who would admit to using it, whether or not it had any effect whatsoever on the number of people who actually did.

Further, with just about any drug, usage will cause more problems for some people than for others. If the drug is being banned because it causes serious problems for some people, the n for the ban to accomplish a useful goal it should reduce usage among the people for whom the drug would otherwise cause serious problems. If the people among whom the ban reduces usage are those who would not have had problems anyway, what's the point?

190 posted on 12/18/2004 12:27:56 PM PST by supercat (To call the Constitution a 'living document' is to call a moth-infested overcoat a 'living garment'.)
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To: robertpaulsen
After re-illegalization, teen marijuana use in Alaska dropped to that of the lower 48.

For all the times you've raised the Alaska case, this is the first time I've seen you make this claim. What's your source?

193 posted on 12/18/2004 12:55:20 PM PST by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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