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Wow, you again misunderstood what I was saying.

Your logic would seem to say teenage drinking would be a LARGER problem than it is today, if alcohol was totally illegal, rather than being available at every convenience and grocery store.

That's a hypothetical scenario, you have the right to make hypothetical predictions since of course my logic is transgressing into the hypothetical..
but I wasn't talking about alcohol was I, I was talking about the illegal drug known by the name of marijuana. Known back in the 1930's as devil's-weed. I'm sure you've heard this before. Let me get to my point... marijuana will always be available... The question then is... Which is more preferable? Children having someone to buy their marijuana for them... at a government store like liquor in some states... Or... do you want it pushed at them all the way throught school? Marijuana shouldn't be a commodity.

Marijuana that is decriminalized remind you. No brands, thus creating no incentive to adverise, it's preventing product recognition. In this scenerio it's a probably a fact that there would be less marijuana smokers. According to the data in my last post above, it's hard to explain otherwise. If you can I would be willing to read it.

But to get back to your hypothetical, your questioning would more children or people, drink alcohol than now? I don't know... I bet it wouldn't be a whole lot less! During prohibition the people abviously missed alcohol... there were just as many users during prohibion than after.

Also a pointer out. The stress on the american school children... that's becuase of one fact... people after leaving, graduating, whatever from school, who use any illegal drug for the first time, are 5 times less likely to continue to using that drug than a highschool student. It appears the teenage years are the key.

That's a hypothetical scenario, you have the right to make hypothetical predictions since of course my logic is transgressing into the hypothetical.. but I wasn't talking about alcohol was I, I was talking about the illegal drug known by the name of marijuana. Known back in the 1930's as devil's-weed. I'm sure you've heard this before. Let me get to my point... marijuana will always be available... The question then is... Which is more preferable? Children having someone to buy their marijuana for them... at a government store like liquor in some states... Or... do you want it pushed at them all the way throught school? Marijuana shouldn't be a commodity.
Marijuana that is decriminalized remind you. No brands, thus creating no incentive to adverise, it's preventing product recognition. In this scenerio it's a probably a fact that there would be less marijuana smokers. According to the data in my last post above, it's hard to explain otherwise. If you can I would be willing to read it.
But to get back to your hypothetical, your questioning would more children or people, drink alcohol than now? I don't know... I bet it wouldn't be a whole lot less! During prohibition the people abviously missed alcohol... there were just as many users during prohibion than after.
Also a pointer out. The stress on the american school children... that's becuase of one fact... people after leaving, graduating, whatever from school, who use any illegal drug for the first time, are 5 times less likely to continue to using that drug than a highschool student. It appears the teenage years are the key.

After trying to make sense out of these sentences I have to think you must be a teenager. That isn't suppose to be an insult, just an observation. Will you admit it if it is true?