Never underestimate the ingenuity of a kid, especially a computer literate one with a curiosity to find out whether valium can be bought online "for real" or not. Any kid could easily go into any store and buy a money order for 99c (and lets face it, these days most kids could buy a mint if they pooled their personal money) and then said kid just hits a web page, does the do, and then sits back and waits. He11, just about every 9 year old kid I know, and as an old fart I have plenty of friends with kids, the majority of these sleuths-in-training have a cellphone, a computer, and probably a "VISA' debit card to their savings account that grandma and grandpa tend to keep stuffed. Not to mention, they're more tech-savvy than we ever dreamed of. In the 70s and 80s we were smart enough to get around society's vaguely stringent hurdles to get whatever illicit items we wanted, whether it be cigarettes, a playboy, a bottle of beer, or whatever else our bored & twistd minds were focusing on at that moment. Imagine your kid self now, at this time in history, with all the knowledge you know you'd have to decide whether to use for good or evil. We were devious back then, what would we stumble into now? I don't have any answers -- I don't know if there ARE answers to this one, but it's certainly meal for grinder.....

Heh, sorry for the full-on ramble, the morning coffee is just kicking in and the migraine med ain't in full control yet. But seriously, If they they think that they're going to stop anyone in this age where anything can be had with the right e-mail addy and a little cutter to gamble. And lets not forget the good job that officer DARE performs in schools across the nation, teaching kids exactly what the different substances and pills look like and how they make you feel. I know it sure piqued my curiosity back in the pre-dare days when my hippy teachers "educated" us about the different drugs and their dangers. I can only imagine and fear what's being put into their ADD-diagnosed minds these days... as someone famous said, "In my day we didn't have Ritalin, we had paddlin!" That doesn't apply to everyone by any means, but I don't recall problems of this maginitude in 1952...

Stepping off the soapbox before I fall off

NS
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The marriage of television and propaganda may well have been the funeral of reason. - unknown