History certainly can’t teach us anything and I’ve never heard of thalidomide.

um. . . let’s see if my html works here:
The THX 1138 frighteningly inexplicable website

The British are considering immunizing children against the effects of cocaine and other drugs. Radley Balko at the Agitator breaks open this Orwellian overture by a state toward its citizens. Be very afraid.

“Take away euphoria, take away orgasms, no one’ll have sex anymore.”

There was a movie about that: THX 1138

So instead of yay fiends and heroin addicts, we’re gonna have more meth heads and prescription pain poppers?

When I was a teen, any excitement that I ever had was illegal, “immoral” and/or disrepsectful. If I couldn’t have drank then or done drugs, I would have done something to satisfy my excitement urges. Maybe more theft or fighting, maybe worse. The euphoria obtained by drugs can be obtained through other experiences, but those experiences aren’t going to be deemed “positive” generally.

Oh well, I’m not in charge. Good luck trying to immunize people from household cleaners and detergents which are the main ingredients to meth. All we need is more trailers full of that stuff.

Faster, please!

I didn’t see anything in the article suggesting a mandate.

And by “implicated” in emergency admissions, CASA of course means “any time someone admitted to having smoked the stuff — ever.” Climb a tree and break your arm, tell the doctor you smoked a joint six weeks ago, and that’s an emergency room incident in which marijuana is “implicated.”

I tried to find something at the link to justify such certainty about CASA’s definition of “implicated,” but could not. From what I did find, it wouldn’t surprise me if your interpretation were correct.

But considering the uncritical ease with which you insert government force into the first article (because “of course” that’s what these pleasure-hating puppets of the EU intend, even if they don’t say so), I think that perhaps you just needed to make both items worthy of such a traffic-inducing headline as “Drug-war Outrage.”

Come on. These are all interesting issues that require attention, but your hyperbole doesn’t help.

other states have the same stamps.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/general/aztaxstamps.htm

MY child would NEVER do drugs so s/he doesn’t need the immunization. It’s the OTHER children from THOSE “communities prone to drug abuse.”

/cynicism

Obviously, libertarian concerns are raised when an immunization program is mandated by government. But wouldn’t such immunizations be acceptible if parents were left with the decisions on whether to immunize their children?

Three, sir!

Q: Can I purchase drug tax stamps through the mail?
A: Yes. The purchaser will need to provide their mailing address in order for the Department to send the drug tax stamps.