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If you think teenage kids can make rational decisions, you are daydreaming. That's why many of them end up on a slab at the morgue.

I'm not claiming that they can. Then again, I'm not convinced that adults are able to make rational decisions either. At some point you have to acknowledge that people can and will do stupid things, and you have to let them do them.

We don't let teenagers drink alcohol, but we let adults drink. The same rule should probably apply with pot.

At least you can notice when kids get into their parents booze, and access is limited. Not so with pot.
Plus, research shows that the brain of a teenager is undergoing an extreme growth/change, much like it does during the first few years of life. The brain looses much of it's unused brain cells during this period of change, and if a teenager is laying about "smoking his brains out", it may be a truer catch phrase than originally thought. Active brains (from studying/learning) retain more brain brain cells during this final development stage.

Pot should never be legalized, because it will just make it all the more socially acceptable. Another reason is that the government will tax the crap out of it, and regulate it. Illegal dealers will still be illegal, just as bootlegging is illegal.