🚀 go-pugleaf

Matt Walcoff wrote:
> 
> But you see we're not debating whether or not people should drink. In
> a perfect world, there might not be alcohol. But the fact is people,
> including people under 21, do drink. The question is how to reduce the
> harm of people drinking.
> 

why do yuo feel that in a perfect world, there wouldn't be alcohol ?
The need of man to alter his conscience is universal...heck, I should
have said animal and not man, for this is something that isn't limitted
to just man...watch a cat sometimes with catnip.....



> Matt
> 
> Steve Nye <nye@nospam.gtx.com> wrote:
> 
> >Rob Rodgers wrote:
> >>
> >> Tom Alciere <talciere@xtdl.com> wrote:
> >> >BTW I don't like cops.
> >>
> >> So, what, are we supposed to be impressed?
> >>
> >> Most of the people I know went through (and got over) that little
> >> phase back when they were sixteen or seventeen and have grown up since
> >> then.
> 
> >Rob,
> 
> >These young people (college kids) (and I DO mean KIDS) are entering into
> >the adult world so rapidly and really don't know about the consequences
> >of their actions. Alcohol use causes so many problems in society, from
> >addiction -- to killing other innocent victims. Look what happened right
> >here in the DC area yesterday:
> >===============================
> >>
> >> -0-
> >>
> >> A canoe trip ended in tragedy for four Reston men early Sunday.
> >> Nineteen-year old Jabar Ahmed Freeman Yusuf of Turkey Wing Court,
> >> drowned when the canoe overturned at Lake Audubon. The three other men
> >> managed to swim to safety. Fairfax County Police say alcohol was a
> >> factor in the accident.
> >================================
> 
> >If this 19 year old hadn't been drinking he would probably be alive
> >today. So sad........
> 
> >               Steve Nye