You should have run with a better class of smokers. None of the smokers I went to HS with turned out that way.
There are many more kids that drink alcohol then smoke pot. Not saying that's a good thing, but part of it is because alcohol is legal for adults, so they think what the heck?
Actually, kids started reporting several years ago that they could get pot more easily than they could get cigarettes or beer. It appears that the most effective way to keep pot out of kids' hands is to legalize it for adults - so sellers have an incentive not to sell to kids (namely, the loss of their legal adult sales).
When Pot is legal everywhere the “stoner” culture will explode.
When alcohol became legal everywhere, did the boozer culture explode? Was the stoner culture ubiquitous the last time pot was legal everywhere?
Personally, I think Meth gives me that added “boost” I need each morning. What's wrong with that being legal, too?
Legalizing pot would leave us in that much better a position to win the war on meth. On the other hand, it's not clear that even a narrowed war on drugs would have any effect other than the current one: hyperinflating drug profits and channeling them into criminal hands, with all the ills that result.
Well, I love the chronic as much as anyone here on FR, and I've been fighting the DW fight on FR since the dawn of man, but we have to be honest here. The "boozer" culture is very prevalent in our society.
You cannot watch NFL football, or most professional sports, without an onslaught of beer advertisements that make drinking beers seem pretty damn cool, or at least, woven inseparably into the fabric of every day life - e.g., watching or enjoying a sporting event. The cool beer drinkin' dudes are the ones who get the chicks and have the most fun.
Or movies, say. Superbad, one of the most popular comedies in recent years, and again targeted towards a youth market, was all about a quest to obtain alcohol. And there are probably thousands of others along those same lines.
Of course, much of this is because alcohol has long been a part of American culture despite the progressives' attempt to abolish its use in the 1920s. So I think it's disingenuous to suggest that "legalizing" booze didn't usher in a boozer culture - I'd say the boozer culture never left, and if anything, became even more reinforced once mass media came into play.