[DiogenesLamp]

I’ve got news for you. Plenty of Texans smoked weed way before it was legal in Colorado.

This is no doubt true, but there is a well know fallacy in which you assert something that is true, and insinuate that it proves your point, when in fact it doesn't.

Your irrelevant fact has no bearing on the point that usage will grow if the product is made available.

If you dispute this, then explain how the usage is not currently zero. If it didn't grow, how did it ever rise to the current level? By what amazing stretch of mental acuity can you argue it won't keep growing beyond the current level?

[ConservingFreedom]

has no bearing on the point that usage will grow if the product is made available.

Texans bringing pot back from Colorado has no bearing on the claim that usage will grow if the product is made available.

[snarkybob]

I love reading your posts. They don’t much farther your position, but you doubletalk as well as any politician I’ve ever seen.

It’s a fact. A lot of people in Texas smoke dope. A lot of people everywhere smoke dope.

Weed being illegal hasn’t stopped people from smoking dope.
Will more people smoke dope if it’s legal? Probably.
Will more people smoke dope if it remains illegal? Probably.

Will some people go on to abuse meth and wreck their lives? Yes.
Will some people abuse cheeseburgers and pound cake and go on to wreck their lives yes.

Should that be the governments lookout? No.

Now let us endeavor to persevere lol.

[Ken H]

Denver Post, Dec 16, 2014 =>

Teen use of marijuana has not increased in the past four years nationwide, even as the country has undergone a transformation in marijuana's legality and availability, according to the results of a survey released Tuesday.

Instead, the annual Monitoring the Future survey found that various measures of teen marijuana use across the country decreased slightly in 2014.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27147495/no-increase-teen-marijuana-use-2014-national-survey