Reforming liquor laws to combat crime
From:
Brian Sandle
Date:
May 18 01:32 UTC
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Brendon Burns wrote:
> Hi Kerry, many kids will experiment with other ways to get high; but alcohol
is our number one drug problem and we don't really treat it like a drug.
>
> The controls on sale of alcohol are less than those on tobacco,which
certainly does harm but it doesn't feed violence, vandalism or put A and E
under stress at weekends.
>
> I am not saying reform of the liquor laws is the answer to everything but
with so much focus on crime in our inner city, it seems to me that we need to
be targeting the primary cause.
>
> Hope you and readers can make the 7pm June 3 Forum at St Michaels Church,
Oxford Tce to allow more discussion.
>
>
I forgot to write about legislation.
Sorry about some bothersome brainstorming.
Whatever forces and for whatever reason has the idea of urban
intensification been developed, the idea that prohibition of alcohol
increased trouble overall has also been developed.
There was crime amongst the bootleggers, but were fathers at home more,
so that things were better for families? Was the work force more able?
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/e1920/consumption.htm
U.S. Alcohol Epidemiologic Data Reference Manual
gives at year 1910 average consumption 2.6 gallons. At 1910 the States
started to progresively introduce prohibition, it was not all at once.
Then at the end of
prohibition, year 1933 consumption was 1.0 gallon, not rising back to
2.6 gallons until 1973, at the peak of the horrific Vietnam war.
How well would have America fought in WWII if alcohol consumption had
stayed at the level it returned to by the Vietnam War end?
Will the prohibition of alcohol and other drugs in Islamic countries
mean they retain a clearer head in some fashion and start to dominate
the world?
Unfortunately the Islamic peoples may not do too well when the emigrate
to couhjtries which do not have prohibition.
In Holland children are taught to relate to alcohol.
Brian Sandle
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