Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Perception and reality in the…, in reply to Richard Aston,
It was refreshing however to hear Bill English talk about the economic advantages of long term prevention over prisons
Now if they could get Goff to follow suit..
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
a cancer patient who desperately wants to take the edge off chemo nausea isn't exactly Pablo Escobar
Yet look how our pathetic system currently treats them. Prosecuting while not providing a legal alternative sounds awfully like some copyrighted entertainment products.
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to Kumara Republic,
a 1970s shop steward with a badge
and itching for a six-shooter
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to Russell Brown,
The older the better
Malt I'd Like to Drink
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
drinking tots
Genius
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Hard News: Perception and reality in the…, in reply to Damian Christie,
After all I'd read
There's your difference :)
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to nzlemming,
Reversing a process may not always have the opposite effect.
http://scholar.google.co.nz/scholar?q=raising+legal+drinking+age&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=1%2C5
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to nzlemming,
I do think that abolishing age restrictions will result in more 12 year olds drinking. I have seen no evidence that raising the restrictions back to 20 years will reduce 12 year olds drinking.
You seem to be saying that raising the age restriction will *not* have the opposite effect that lowering it did. Can you explain that please.
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to nzlemming,
The underage drinking comment was made to show that restricting availability is not restricting access
Increasing availability by lowering the legal purchase age is widely reported by ED and other health sector specialists as having resulted in more harms to young drinkers, isn't it?
Are you saying the opposite doesn't apply? Or are we getting tangled in semantics about "availability" and "access"?
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to nzlemming,
The "correlation" point was made to Sacha, who appeared to be making too much of one data point.
More than one data point. I was recalling discussions hereabouts and in other media which cited various evidence about the effectiveness of restricting availability - especially through pricing - compared with other interventions. I've read some of the reports but I am certainly not an expert in this area and nor do I have time to go digging up references.
I'm not saying that any government would choose just one measure. But to deny a correlation seems to fly in the face of what evidence I have encountered, which seemed to form a reasonable professional consensus. That's all.