She Cooks on Nostr: abolishing every form of youth targeted prohibition is the most profound thing we ...
abolishing every form of youth targeted prohibition is the most profound thing we could do to immediately relieve a lot of minority stress which applies to young people. let kids buy cigarettes or dildos without making a literal state case about it.
worried they might hurt themselves with drugs or sex? fund education services and addiction medicine, counseling services, medical care, and make public life pleasant and possible to help combat drug dependency rather than prohibiting and policing. we know street drugs aren't good for kids, street drugs aren't vitamins for *anyone* yet we know prohibition and incarceration do not stop drug misuse or addiction. these things are symptoms of a public health crisis stemming from a failing economy and increasingly impossible ways of life leading to all kinds of behavioral health problems, and these particular problems often do start when someone is still a minor;
prohibiting young people from legally drinking does not make them unable to drink, access to alcohol is nearly ubiquitous regardless of legality. it does, however, make it harder for them to realize when their drinking becomes a problem, harder or impossible to access treatment without legal consequences, much harder to compel treatment for codependent alcoholic family members, and their legal status as minors keeps them living in drinking houses for years as they thoroughly train in alcoholic methods of thinking and feeling and communicating
restricting rights to do something because that something is "bad for you" is an ancient, done to death form of wishful thinking. something is "bad for you", so just BAN it and the world will get better... no. we can't mandate generational trauma away. we need to decrininalize youth in every possible way and bravely contend with their real problems, not deny and condemn them
worried they might hurt themselves with drugs or sex? fund education services and addiction medicine, counseling services, medical care, and make public life pleasant and possible to help combat drug dependency rather than prohibiting and policing. we know street drugs aren't good for kids, street drugs aren't vitamins for *anyone* yet we know prohibition and incarceration do not stop drug misuse or addiction. these things are symptoms of a public health crisis stemming from a failing economy and increasingly impossible ways of life leading to all kinds of behavioral health problems, and these particular problems often do start when someone is still a minor;
prohibiting young people from legally drinking does not make them unable to drink, access to alcohol is nearly ubiquitous regardless of legality. it does, however, make it harder for them to realize when their drinking becomes a problem, harder or impossible to access treatment without legal consequences, much harder to compel treatment for codependent alcoholic family members, and their legal status as minors keeps them living in drinking houses for years as they thoroughly train in alcoholic methods of thinking and feeling and communicating
restricting rights to do something because that something is "bad for you" is an ancient, done to death form of wishful thinking. something is "bad for you", so just BAN it and the world will get better... no. we can't mandate generational trauma away. we need to decrininalize youth in every possible way and bravely contend with their real problems, not deny and condemn them