Morgan.

Offering your child vodka is the same if not worse than offering it heroin. If you will offer your child vodka, you may as well offer it magic mushrooms, LSD, cannabis, ketamine, tobacco, or steroids. These are far less harmful.

Best do it my way, and give them none.

The Science is clear for all to see who want to see it. Alcohol is at least as harmful as heroin and crack is, thus I wont be giving my kids alcohol, heroin or crack. If you wish to do that, fine.

I dispute the fact that you have somehow inferred that. I’ve said no such thing.

Whether that is a fair comparison dose / unit wise, I could not say.

If we could experiment with equal dosages, The Lancet suggests alcohol would be more harmful.

Whether that is a fair comparison dose / unit wise, I could say.

If we could experiment with equal dosages, The Lancet suggests alcohol would be more harmful.

Academics in this field already know alcohol is at least as harmful as heroin is.

https://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_cause_most_harm

Search,

“Graph of harmful drugs” in google.

You will get more hits than you can care to go through, from a whole variety of sources. All the graphs will have alcohol on top or close to the top.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lancet

The Lancet. one of the oldest and most respected of medical journals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lancet

The Lancet. one of the oldest and most respected of medicine journals.

With all respect, I will take The Lancet’s opinions on what they consider to be harmful drugs, rather that yours x

Of course I’m not.

I am suggesting that you present a very compelling case as to why heroin should not be encouraged to minors. That equally applies to alcohol, which is my point. I really don’t want to give my kids heroin or alcohol. I give them neither for the same reasons.

Would you rather a good bonk, or a good drink / spliff / line of coke?

If encouraging your 15 year old to have a “few” Vodkas is acceptable, then it must be equally acceptable to encourage them to have a “few” hits of something less harmful like Heroin, Crack or tobacco. Cannabis is as we see much less harmful than vodka.

I have no intention of encouraging any youths (or adults) to do any of the above.

Not all…[Read more]

If encouraging your 15 year old to have a “few” Vodkas is acceptable, then it must be equally acceptable to encourage them to have a “few” hits of something less harmful like Heroin, Crack or tobacco. Cannabis is as we see much less harmful than vodka.

I have no intention of encouraging any youths (or adults) to do any of the above.

Not all…[Read more]

I also believe that the age of consent should remain at 16. I have deliberated it over this thread. I also have children of various ages so have personal insight and experience too.

I also believe that in the UK we do generally “accept” that if 14-16’s are doing it among themselves that the law isn’t going to be going in heavy handed. I have…[Read more]

I also believe that the age of consent should remain at 16. I have deliberated it over this thread. I also have children of various ages so have personal insight and experience too.

I also believe that in the UK we do generally “accept” that if under 16’s are doing it among themselves that the law isn’t going to be going in heavy handed. I have…[Read more]

I also believe that the age of consent should remain at 16. I have deliberated it over this thread. I also have children of various ages so have personal insight and experience too.

I also believe that in the UK we do generally “accept” that if under 16’s are doing among themselves that the law isn’t going to be going in heavy handed. I have…[Read more]

Would you rather a good bonk, or a good drink?

I don’t necessarily agree with this. If I can interpret that, a few Vodkas, a few? let’s say 5 vodkas could make a 15 year old, who has never had alcohol or vodka very sick, 5 vodkas would make me sick. Why vodka ffs? Why not a mild beer or wine even? As an extreme it could result in alcohol poisoning, even death. Why put your child through that?…[Read more]