Children drinking alcohol
Children get hold of drugs and alcohol despite the law. We obviously need to protect children. The availability of drugs and alcohol to school age children indicates we are not doing a very good job of it.
Surely better education would be better than heavy use of the law. Giving a criminal record to somebody starting out in life for a small quantity of cannabis or something similar, seems to be a crazy thing for a society to do.
People including children need to be given the information they need to protect their physical and mental well being. Not a series of misinformed scare stories or 'moral' condemnation.
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