[Ha Ha Thats Very Logical]

The result was a crime wave. Children as young as 7 and 8 years old were breaking into vehicles and residences to steal cash and/or property to fence - all in an effort to get money to purchase pot and hash.

Why were they not already doing the same thing to purchase wine and liquor?

[SatinDoll]

Don’t know, but I never saw drunk children. Smoking tobacco was very prevalent in Spain then and most men, I noticed, smoke tobacco. So it was probably due to the acceptability of smoking.

I know from my own family that children generally like sweet drinks. Alchohol products in Europe, generally available as wine and beer, are not sweet unless sugar and/or fruit is added. The wine in Spain is generally quite dry and fruit syrup is added to make it palatable. The only drunks I saw were adults, and they were very few in number.

Marijuana and hash, and I’m no expert on this, are generally not available as a sweet drink.

[-YYZ-]

“Why were they not already doing the same thing to purchase wine and liquor?”

Or the readily available illegal hash and marijuana?