Legalizing it would not prevent the teens from getting pot. They’ve been taking from the jars on the parents’ dresser for years. The pot smoking parents are constantly heard, saying that they would prefer to have their kids driving high on marijuana than drunk on beer, as well as the remark, well it didn’t hurt me, so it won’t hurt them. It’s no big deal. It’s a mind set, that marijuana is harmless. It’s not.
I know someone who shared her home grown medical marijuana with a young man, who after leaving her house, ran over and killed a man and spent 3.5 years of his young life behind bars.
The point is that the war on drugs, as your posts also prove, has been a complete failure. Legalizing it here will be a cash cow and people smoke it anyway. Lots of them.
Should the money they spend to smoke it go to the mexican cartels or to our state?
In Washington we voted to keep the money in our state and not support violent gangs in Mexico. Bring it feds.
Legalizing it would not prevent the teens from getting pot.
I said "most effective way" not "100% effective way." Adult legality and regulation does a better job of keeping the drugs alcohol and tobacco away from teens than banning marijuana does in keeping that drug away from teens.
They’ve been taking from the jars on the parents’ dresser for years. The pot smoking parents are constantly heard, saying that they would prefer to have their kids driving high on marijuana than drunk on beer, as well as the remark, well it didn’t hurt me, so it won’t hurt them. It’s no big deal. It’s a mind set, that marijuana is harmless. It’s not.
I know someone who shared her home grown medical marijuana with a young man, who after leaving her house, ran over and killed a man and spent 3.5 years of his young life behind bars.
Nothing you say above distinguishes marijuana from the legal drug alcohol; do you support banning that drug for adults?