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Weed can put you in jail for ten years and the same amount of dope can, a surprising number of vices are allowed here. drinking age is 18. prostitution is legal, and sex workers getting medical checkups. there are strip clubs and casinos. the government seems to understand that along with a certain amount of freedoms, safety rules are required. get drunk, get laid and you are less likely to get in trouble. perhaps that is the thinking or maybe it's just business. ♪ ♪

Join the communist party. it's like bourgeoisie, man. you're living off the labor of an oppressed underclass. >> sudhir: yeah, yeah, yeah. >> anthony: i'm going to start my own cell. i'm just -- with you. for a state where an ounce of weed can put you in the jug for up to ten years and the same weight of dope can mean death, where chewing gum is indeed illegal, a surprising number of drinking age is 18.ere. prostitution is legal, with sex workers getting gular medical check-ups. there are casinos and strip clubs. the government seems to understand that along with a certain amount of repression...

For a state where an ounce of weed can put you in the jug for up to ten years and the same weight of dope can mean death, where chewing gum is indeed illegal, a surprising number of vices are allowed here. drinking age is 18. prostitution is legal, with sex workers getting regular medical check-ups. there are casinos and strip clubs. the government seems to understand that along with a certain amount of repression, safety valves are required. get drunk, get laid, and you are less likely to be difficult. perhaps that's the thinking. or maybe it's just business. ♪

You would pull highway funding or whatever. you just can't coerce a state with financial punishment when all the states are on the take from the federal government to get your thing through. even though it seems like the right way to go, it's going to get turned against you at the wrong time. you're not going to like it. dagen: well, actually in the late '80s, the supreme court decided south dakota v dole that under a law the governmentóuñ?ñd withhold?ñ? federal funds from states that didn't honor the federal drinking age.ñ?ñ? adrian. >> look. at the end of thesxñ?ñ? day, ita shame th...

Myra, i do. i was the product of a positive three-year fraternity experience. i'm not throwing out the baby with the bath water, a subject for a different day and it doesn't apply necessarily to this penn state case, but a subject for a different day is whether we've driven drinking underground. whether in a crackdown on alcohol -- i know this is going to be controversial, but i'm going to say it any way. whether it a crackdown on alcohol on campuses across the country, we have driven students into their dorm rooms where they binge drink, tie one on in a hurry and then act inappropriately. tha...