So as I understand you, if marijuana was made 'harder to get', then more teens, possibly 'twice as many', would use marijuana.
Explain to me again, are you for or against teen use of marijuana?
But perhaps I drew the wrong conclusions because you were not making an argument, but merely having fun with non sequiturs.
The argument was made (back in post #8) that "the children can get it (marijuana) now on practically any street corner. If legalized, taxed and controlled like hard liquor is (at least in Texas, where hard liquor is sold only in liquor stores and you have to be 21 to walk in the door), it would not be any more available to kids than it is now, possibly even less available."
All I said was that, despite the fact that alcohol was "controlled" and hard to get, twice as many teens are using alcohol than are using the "easy to get" marijuana.
So, the argument of "let's legalize and contol marijuana so it's less available" holds no weight with me. It doesn't work for alcohol, why do we think it will work for marijuana?