Showing ID & signing in to buy OTC cold medicines?

[gekko]

Kind of like the drug laws?  ;)
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Actually, yes. Or rather, kind of like the drug laws we have right now.

My main problem with the drug laws target the user far too heavily. They should be targetting the dealers. But that's another whole argument.

I see that we agree that laws have to have some arbitrary "line in the sand," as reasonable as can be decided upon. Why should that line only apply to numbers like speed limits and blood/alcohol percentages?

I'm speaking from the perspective of a young man who has never used an illegal substance. Hell, I've never even taken a puff of a cigarette. I've never understood the desire to get so high (or so drunk, for that matter) that you lose self control. But I'm not the norm. 9 out of 10 people my age and younger are too stupid to know how messed up their lives are going to be if they keep shooting themselves full of cocaine. I now hear the high school I graduated from has become just steeped in cocaine. I shudder at the thought. The kids I went to school with were too stupid to tie their shoelaces together! Teenagers and young adults are simply too stupid to make the kinds of smart decisions you seem to think it's their responsability to make.

Kids are going to do stupid things, and no drug law or threat of punishment will stop them from experimenting with drugs and alcohol (among other things). However, I sincerely hope my kids never have to live in a world where they can go the corner store and buy cocaine. I've seen what that stuff can do to a person, and I KNOW how hard it can be for kids to resist peer pressure -- no matter how we'll they're raised.

gekko