“These people really do not care what happens to the children, do they?”and
Young people have been reporting since well before any state had legalized that they could get marijuana almost as easily as cigarettes or beer, although the latter two are much more widespread among adults. This evidence indicates that the best way of keeping a drug away from young people is to legalize it for adults - which gives its sellers an economic incentive to confine their sales to adults, namely the risk of losing their legal adult market.
Is there any evidence that less use by kids where it’s legal? At all? I’ve only seen the opposite. And it makes sense, anything authorized by the gov is going to be more common by definition. It’s like homo marriage and so on. Once it gets hold, then legalized, it only gets worse.
If you have any evidence that legalization has lowered demand or use in any age group like you NORML types claimed, I’d love to see it.