Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other colleges are experiencing similar alcohol-related confrontations. With every state but Wyoming having imposed a legal drinking age of 21, schools are faced with the task of trying to enforce selective prohibition. At the University of California, Berkeley, drinking has been banned from public areas of dormitories and at all fraternity and sorority rushes. Last April the University of Oregon forbade the purchase of liquor by the school's 16 fraternities. In New Brunswick, N.J., last month Rutgers University students were indicted for aggravated hazing following the drink-related death in February of an 18-year-old Lambda...
...great debate over legalizing recreational drugs, the least convincing assertion of the pro-legalizers is that drug use might not even increase as a result. I can state for certain that drug use would increase. I don't use drugs now. If they were legal, I would use them. Or rather, if marijuana were legal, I would use it occasionally instead of the legal drug I now use regularly, alcohol. To be sure, increased respect for the law is not the only reason so many middle-class, middle-age people have abandoned marijuana: you're also no longer so carefree...
...alcohol is not legal out of tragic necessity, just because Prohibition was a practical failure. Alcohol is legal because Americans like to drink. Almost all drinkers indulge their habit in moderation, with no harmful effect. Quite the reverse: alcohol is a small but genuine contribution toward their pursuit of happiness. Society has decided that the pleasure of drinking is worth the equally genuine cost to society and pain to many individuals of alcoholism, automobile accidents and so on. What's more, this social decision is correct. The world would not be a better place without booze, even if that were...
Actually, most advocates of legalization would ban drug advertising. But opponents argue vehemently that the very fact of legalization would constitute a powerful form of advertising. However loudly Washington might proclaim that it was not condoning narcotics abuse, the message that would come through on the streets would be "the Government says it's O.K.," and that message would overpower any stepped-up educational efforts about the dangers of drugs. One peculiar aspect of modern American society is that little distinction is made between what is legal and what is socially condoned...
...claims that smokers are 'addicts' defy common sense and contradict the fact that people quit smoking every day," said Brennan Moran, a spokeswoman for the Tobacco Institute. "The Surgeon General has mistaken the enemy," declared Democratic Senator Terry Sanford of North Carolina. "In comparing tobacco -- a legitimate and legal substance -- to insidious narcotics such as heroin and cocaine, he has directed 'friendly fire' at American farmers and businessmen...