Pubdate: Sun, 01 Apr 2001
Source: Denver Post (CO)
Copyright: 2001 The Denver Post Corp
Contact:  http://www.denverpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/122
Author: Philip Lucero

ECSTASY CRACKDOWN

So, shut the schools

Re: "Ecstasy use spurs shift in Denver's liquor policy," March 24 news story.

If Denver's enforcement of liquor policies at nightclubs that serve liquor 
at all-ages shows is in response to two recent deaths involving Ecstasy, 
perhaps Mayor Webb and Denver police should shut down the public schools. 
If memory serves, that is where Brittney Chambers and her 15- and 
16-year-old friends obtained the drug: in the school bathroom, not in a 
Denver nightclub. Secondly, maybe they should kick teens out of their own 
homes, because that is where Chambers took the drug that eventually killed her.

It's obvious some stupid teens and adults are dealing drugs at these 
venues. While club owners are attempting to prohibit this, most of these 
incidents are isolated, and anyone with a shred of common sense knows that 
drugs of all kinds are available in our schools, at malls, inside teen-only 
clubs, in parks and on city streets.

No wonder the war on drugs is a failure. When policemen and politicians 
react with very little common sense, there is little chance that their 
policies will solve any problems we face as a society.

PHILIP LUCERO

Denver
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