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UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners

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Re: UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners

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Constraining supply of highly addictive drugs isn't an important factor to you? At all? Alcohol is legal, how does it follow that there should be more iterations of addictive substances that do more damage to the fabric of society?

> Constraining supply of highly addictive drugs isn't an important factor to you? At all? Isn't, at all. Something not being easily available makes it more attractive and makes people more curious about it. Such is human psychology. Prohibition of anything for which there's demand does not work. It can't work. In general, laws only work when the majority of the society is on board with them. If the only people who ar…

>Something not being easily available makes it more attractive and makes people more curious about it. Such is human psychology.

Can you cite a period when drug enforcement was more successful causing increased consumption?

>Again, if there's demand, there will be supply, regardless of legality. And since there will be supply of addictive substances either way, it makes sense to legalize them. The legalization will remove the criminal element from the cost, making it significantly cheaper, and would also ensure high quality/purity.

What do you think of the results in places that have attempted various versions of this? SF, Denver, parts of Canada, they all meet a similar result. Do you think the British were the good guys in the Opium Wars?

Re: UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners

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Wonder if anyone knows or can speculate how these work? I stole a glance at the screen when my bag passed through one of these--looked like CT. The user can examine and freely rotate a transparent model of what's in the bag. I always wondered if you could use different energy X-rays to attempt to analyze what things being examined are made of.

> I always wondered if you could use different energy X-rays to attempt to analyze what things being examined are made of. Yup. You can do that to some extent.

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