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Teen marijuana use up, alcohol use down (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/14/AR2010121402538.html - broken link)
I've been telling y'all for years, drug dealers don't ID. If you want to keep most teens away from marijuana, legalize it, put it behind a counter at the liquor store where they do ID.
There will always be some folks that buy for kids, or some kids that get lucky and don't get carded, but as it stands now, no one ID's them.
Ah well...they may think that their Scantron papers are edible, but at least they won't be running around causing damage like they would if they were drunk.
Another big reason to legalize. It's eaiser for kids to get weed than it is cigarettes and alcohol. Legalize, and set an age limit similar to alcohol, and you take the power away from the dealers.
Nicotine and alcohol are both legal substances and controlled, but yet the under 21 crowd has no problem obtaining them. The argument that weed if legalized would somehow become unavailable or harder to obtain for minors is a losing one.
What legalization would do, is give the fed and state governments another revenue stream to abuse and agencies to expand.
I also think we spend inordinate amounts of time and money enforcing laws against it and believe adults should be able to abuse themselves in the privacy of their homes as they see fit.
I don't profess to have the end all be all answer, but legalizing it won't be the panacea that is suggested.
Nicotine and alcohol are both legal substances and controlled, but yet the under 21 crowd has no problem obtaining them. The argument that weed if legalized would somehow become unavailable or harder to obtain for minors is a losing one.
What legalization would do, is give the fed and state governments another revenue stream to abuse and agencies to expand.
I also think we spend inordinate amounts of time and money enforcing laws against it and believe adults should be able to abuse themselves in the privacy of their homes as they see fit.
I don't profess to have the end all be all answer, but legalizing it won't be the panacea that is suggested.
Before prohibition and during, children as young as 13 drank beer regularly. After prohibition was repealed and many states instituted drinking age laws, the regular age of drinking increased to the legal limit.
Teen marijuana use up, alcohol use down (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/14/AR2010121402538.html - broken link)
I've been telling y'all for years, drug dealers don't ID. If you want to keep most teens away from marijuana, legalize it, put it behind a counter at the liquor store where they do ID.
There will always be some folks that buy for kids, or some kids that get lucky and don't get carded, but as it stands now, no one ID's them.
GEE do I sense users around here?
What a load of frog cr@p.
Look to Mexico and pot. Somewhat legalized there and their gangs have already half taken over the country with the drug money.
Man up, give up the drugs and just say no.
Last thing kids need is passive or direct approval of drugs as they are in their stupid years.
Do you know about a quarter of the kids coming to schools now like head start have been impaired because of parental pot, drug, substance abuses by the mother during pregnancy.
We don't need a nation of drug dependent crazy people with mental impairment. Thanks anyway....NOT!
This country LOVES futility for some reason. Futility is the only word to describe the Drug War, but we can't get enough of it for some reason.
Why don't pot lovers just buy a place in Mexico and soak in that lovely pro-marijuana atmosphere for a time.
Mexico has become Afghanistan because of pot, I wish no such stupidity for the USA. We have enough troubles with a socialist at the helm of a Capitalist society.
Before prohibition and during, children as young as 13 drank beer regularly. After prohibition was repealed and many states instituted drinking age laws, the regular age of drinking increased to the legal limit.
Proof enough?
Because you said so? No, it isn't proof enough.
If anything societal norms changed, which is also the same reason kids are getting high instead of drunk, because it's cooler.
Legalizing weed in actuality will make it easier for minors to obtain by getting it out in the open and they will always find an adult accomplice willing to buy for them down at the corner store.
Last edited by Frank DeForrest; 12-16-2010 at 09:39 AM..
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