Our Platform for Outlining Colorado’s Future

Please help me give good parental advice! I'm trying to outline various topics using a formal process to identify reasons to agree/disagree and published documents that agree/disagree in a method that automates cost/benefit analysis and conflict resolution between those who agree and disagree with each belief. Please leave your comments to help me outline this issue. Thesis: It’s important to gather good parental advice Reasons to agree : Dangers of addiction and substance abuse. Evidence: Documented correlation between early intervention and reduced addiction rates Key Example: Impact of alcohol abuse on academic and career trajectories Supporting Research: Studies showing the effectiveness of parent-child communication about substance risks Risk of life-altering relationships and economic pitfalls. Evidence: Statistical data on teen pregnancy and poverty correlation Source: "The Lives of ...

Reasons  to agree: When Obama said,  “Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack though" ( Dreams from My Father), he thought he would reach those who had used drugs and convence them to go straight. However he will have reached more straight kids and convinced them to use drugs, by making it sound cool, showing that he was able to beat it, and using their street names, as though he is still trying to have "street cred".  Reasons  to agree: Obama is right that selling 15 tablets of Ecstasy should not be in the same class of felony as raping a woman at knifepoint .

Reasons  to agree:  The person who is buying the ecstasy wants to buy it. Reasons  to disagree:

Reasons  to agree with Obama: If you get killed because you made someone mad, or they want to steal your car, or because you were in the wrong place in the wrong time, that is one thing. But gangs are specifically targetting cops. We need them to be un-afraid of going into dangerous places. If they are not safe, than none of us are safe. It should be worse to kill cops, because they stand in the place of all of us in keeping our society together, and all that thin-blue-line stuff. Background: Q: On mandatory death sentences for gang members who kill cops you voted no. Would you explain? OBAMA: [The proposed legislation] was entirely unnecessary and unconstitutional. It suggested that I could kill a police officer but because I’m not a gang member, I would be treated differently. I think both cases should be death penalty eligible. KEYES: Senator Obama does not think it superfluous to have hate crimes legislation that adds a special animus to certain acts of violence already penaliz...