Court Opinion

ID: 9791722
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:16:42.880715+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:38.135950
License: Public Domain

HENRIOD, Justice
(concurring) :
I concur. I also concur in what is said generally in the dissent about the erosion of our liberties, but I believe this casé, though a topic for lively debate, may be classified as a legitimate subject for regulation within the police power, just as a law would be t,o prevent the almost synonymous circumstance of suicide. I .believe no one successfully would be convincing if he said one’s freedom is so sacred as to demand an uninterrupted right to use heroin, *108or to indulge in scuba diving with dangerous, defective equipment. I believe that the police power is flexible enough reasonably to have included within it certain factual situations that arc so hazardous personally to a large segment of the community as reasonably to be the subject of regulation, and that adequate protective headgear for the rapidly expanding number of cyclists in the country reasonably may be numbered among them.