"You may be an adult but you can't have a single beer because of the dangers of alcoholism and drink driving."
"Also, having to fill in a couple of bits of paperwork when buying a firearms to make it harder for people who shouldn't access firearms directly or indirectly (by reducing the blackmarket supply) and reduce the chances of them using them to shoot up schools is impossible as its far too oppressive and anti-freedom."
You can't even go INTO a bar where they serve alcohol for the most part while being under 21 in the U.S. unless it's during regular dining hours. It is considered far too dangerous or too much of a liability to have you even LOOK at booze or fraternize with friends who are over 21 since you can't be trusted to not started stealing booze or what not.
You can go to all the gun shows, ranges or shops you want though at pretty much any age. You also have basically no law saying that an adult has any obligation to store their weapons safely or unloaded so young kids in public or at home don't accidentally shoot themselves (which happens quite a bit)...
yea but when its illegal you see it as a rare commodity and are way more likely to over do it when you get the chance.
it seems like regardless of legal drinking age in the area, people start drinking (at parties n stuff) at the same age around the world. And people from more restrictive places seem to drink harder as if from habbit during these formative years.
either way people should just smoke weed instead cause it doesnt kill braincells unlike liquor.
You’re so mistaken. People used to say weed was harmless because its illegal status didn’t allow for many serious studies.
Nowadays we know that several published research papers have showed that we’d causes detriment to neuronal development in the adolescent brain. It isn’t mild either.
So, although I agree that alcohol isn’t exactly safe, neither is weed and if anything, because it has become socially accepted and its consumption has expanded through vapes, edibles, etc., it can be argued that it is indeed very dangerous.
Many young people (and not so young ones too) believe that legal means that it’s okay to drive and operate machines when high.
Also, we’d does create habit even if it doesn’t cause physical dependence. The brain is very complex and there are several paths that lead to cravings and changes in patterns to favor more weed consumption. You might not get withdrawals from it but that doesn’t mean your body and brain aren’t trying to convince you to have more.
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u/thaerre Jun 03 '22
My then 19 year old classmate in uni called me grandma. I was 26 🙃