[Hemingway's Ghost]

She would tell you that she started on weed to be one of the crowd, the in crowd so to speak and regrets having started any drug.

This is how your argument breaks down:

As a teenager, my had such little self respect that she engaged in Behavior X in order to fit in with the cool crowd. Behavior X turned out to impact the rest of her life in a bad way. Therefore, government must step in to prevent others from engaging in Behavior X.

You really want to give government the power to govern as if all the body politic was a weak-willed teenage girl?

[manc]

I’m telling you from experience, wether you want to ignore that or not I couldn;t careless.

I;ve seen what drugs can do to my family and it started at her age of 15.
Her taking and starting with weed ended up to her stealing, for the drugs, for her brain being fried, for her kids to now be slow because of the second hand smoke and her going on to harder drugs.

Now of course some say that Govt should nto tell people what they do with their bodies, and if you think that peoplke taking heroin, coke, and LSD is fine and be on the street with it then shall Govt also not tell kids and what age are kids to do this and then should Govt not say if a shop can sell drugs next to a school?