You should have run with a better class of smokers. None of the smokers I went to HS with turned out that way.
There are many more kids that drink alcohol then smoke pot. Not saying that's a good thing, but part of it is because alcohol is legal for adults, so they think what the heck?
Actually, kids started reporting several years ago that they could get pot more easily than they could get cigarettes or beer. It appears that the most effective way to keep pot out of kids' hands is to legalize it for adults - so sellers have an incentive not to sell to kids (namely, the loss of their legal adult sales).
When Pot is legal everywhere the “stoner” culture will explode.
When alcohol became legal everywhere, did the boozer culture explode? Was the stoner culture ubiquitous the last time pot was legal everywhere?
Personally, I think Meth gives me that added “boost” I need each morning. What's wrong with that being legal, too?
Legalizing pot would leave us in that much better a position to win the war on meth. On the other hand, it's not clear that even a narrowed war on drugs would have any effect other than the current one: hyperinflating drug profits and channeling them into criminal hands, with all the ills that result.