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Kids get high, legal or illegal. So do adults, including the glorified sports millionaires and likely a lot of folks who are held up as examples,here, just because they haven’t been seen in the act. In other social venues, that same example is likely more acceptable for smoking or having smoked.

Back in the day,the late 50s-early 60’s, before all the hype and hippies, people with a lot of money got it from their house servants and people with no money got it from whomever had it.

I remember my father, born in 1917, telling us that the pot available in the Sixties was garbage compared to what he personally had experienced in the 1930s.

So, for decades and decades, you have been on the road with pot smokers, listened to the music of pot smokers, used the technology created by pot smokers, read the books written by pot smokers, and probably seen an MD, an attorney or even a cop who occasionally used pot. The only difference I see now is that it is more open and outrageously expensive, both the legal and illegal variety. Most is not adulterated because most of the market wouldn’t buy adulterated. As for stronger: if its stronger, people smoke less to get the desired effect.

Most people take it or leave it. I remember 30 years when someone asked a Dutch exchange student about smoking pot in Holland. That particular student just looked at the older hippie and asked: “Why would anyone want to?” Just that student’s personal opinion.

Prohibition failed. Pot prohibition is failing. Compared to the other problems in this country/world, legal marijuana is nothing at all. There appears to be something to the argument that keeping pot illegal is just another way to make criminals of everyone.

Of course, making it legal also turns everyone using it into a tax slave.

Neither side will win this if it is seen as a war. Probably at some point, there will be all different strengths and flavors available, some at high prices, some at low. Pot prohibitioners will be seen as quaint, like alcohol prohibitionists.