re: "Dope wars take shape" (BP, August 28, 2022)
Dear editor,
The healthy legalization or decriminalization of cannabis has produced so much angst to protect the children, a popular conservative catch cry at least since they used that excuse to legally kill Socrates in 399 BC before going on to repeat the injustices committed in the name of children denied a voice in all such matters affecting themselves.
And yet a simple, obvious solution is at hand. Just copy the law controlling cigarette sales. Perhaps a very few irresponsible parents enable their naughty children to smoke, but perhaps smoking is so out of fashion that not even the bad kids want to do that any more. Or copy the laws regulating the sale of the far more harmful drug alcohol. How many parents let their kids drink alcohol? How many naughty kids run into trouble because they snitch some of their parents' alcohol stash?
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on August 31, 2022, under the title "Copy cig, grog rules" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2380641/avoiding-snakes
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