The human brain is incomplete at birth and continues to develop for about 20
years. This has been proven in many studies and is well known. Children
are different and not capable of logical thought and evaluation of threats
and consequences. That is why the military prefers 17-18 year old recruits,
why a 5-12 year old can get on a motorcycle and do back-flips and other
stunts, they don't know any better so they learn how to do it before they
learn fear.

The penalty should be draconian since recreational drug use kills the brain,
the only real difference between humans and apes. A trial determines guilt
and a jury decides guilt. If you shoot a person in the head with a bullet,
or a drug, you still destroy the brain.


"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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| "Jim Macklin" writes:
|
| Because children do not have the mental development needed to make the
| rational choice about the medical and social effects of drug use.
|
| Outside the category of infants, children have the same mental development
as
| adults. And people who use drugs are usually handicapped mentally in some
| way, no matter how old they are.
|
| I would arrest, try and execute any person who provided recreational
drugs
| to children, whether it was smoked, drunk, or injected.
|
| If you've already decided to execute them, why bother with the trial part?
|
| I know adults who give beer to their infants and toddlers. Do you suggest
| that these adults be executed?
|
| That includes alcoholic drinks.
|
| See above. Does it include fermented hot apple cider, egg nog, tiramisu,
and
| so on?
|
| Teens can give a drunk a few dollars for beer and get all
| the alcohol they want. If the penalty was death, the children would not
be
| able to get the drunk to buy them beer or hard liquor for the bottle as
| payment.
|
| What's wrong with them obtaining alcoholic beverages? Isn't it a bit
| hypocritical for adult drug abusers to complain when their children make
the
| same stupid mistakes that they are making?
|
| Same thing for the drug pusher selling to children. If you're 18, and
want
| drugs, it should be cheap, the black-market makes drugs expensive and
makes
| the gang violence.
|
| What changes at age 18?
|
| Public intoxication should result in arrest and time in the "tank" and
OD,
| you die, no extraordinary tax money should be spent to save lives that
were
| unwanted and discarded.
|
| While I tend to agree about overdoses, why should public intoxication
result
| in arrest, assuming that it creates no danger for others and no
disturbance of
| the peace?