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Nobody gets carded or has to find an 'adult' to buy pot.
In my own youth (lets say, 16 years old), if I were sent on a scavenger hunt and told to obtain a fifth of Jack Daniels and an eighth ounce of Marijuana, I could've gotten the pot in five minutes, whereas the booze would've taken a good bit more effort.
Nobody gets carded or has to find an 'adult' to buy pot.
I understand what you're saying, and the logic behind it. I just haven't found it to be true, that's all. Maybe alcohol was just easier for me to get as a teenager, I don't know.
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In my own youth (lets say, 16 years old), if I were sent on a scavenger hunt and told to obtain a fifth of Jack Daniels and an eighth ounce of Marijuana, I could've gotten the pot in five minutes, whereas the booze would've taken a good bit more effort.
Haha, definitely not for me. I guess it just depends - I'm from a small town. The people who sold pot usually also sold crack. You'd always hear about kids getting robbed at gunpoint, buying pot. I had a good fake ID at 16, maybe that had something to do with it.
The most common rebuttal is that "Pot is a gateway drug." This fails to account for the fact that many legal drugs are gateway drugs, including Tylenol, caffeine, nicotine, and Benadryl.
Two wrongs do not make a right. Why release yet another problem into society?
Two wrongs do not make a right. Why release yet another problem into society?
Because according to all accounts and general pillars of logic, it isn't a "problem" and never really was.
The same psuedo-puritanical BS that brought us prohibition of beer also brought the same to relatively benign narcotics. The only difference is, beer is more popular so the majority rules, even if the majority is wrong.
There is an argument that alcohol is tolerated much more than other drugs because users "suffer" for overconsumption of alcohol in the form of hangovers. With drugs like pot, there is no suffering, and hence, no "atonement." Vengeful teetotalers would rather have people suffer for their "sins" than not, and if the drug doesn't carry its own punishment, they'd like the law to step in and serve the same role.
Because according to all accounts and general pillars of logic, it isn't a "problem" and never really was.
The same psuedo-puritanical BS that brought us prohibition of beer also brought the same to relatively benign narcotics. The only difference is, beer is more popular so the majority rules, even if the majority is wrong.
Those who work at rehabs in hosptials would disagree that it isn't a problem. Many of those rehab patients are marijuana-related.
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