Marijuana: A Gift of the Left to America’s Youth: CO and WA already having bad consequences

National Review ^ | 03/12/2013 | Dennis Prager

[JustSayNoToNannies]

And you forgot to answer my earlier question; did you pay for your childrens’ education?

Yes, it’s common for adults in the US to pay for their kids education.

You still didn't answer his question. Did YOU pay for your childrens’ education?

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Again, you challenged my point that even one hit affects you.

Wrong as usual. Your claim, in post #149: "One hit and your mind is in a different place."

[bramps]

You and others provoked me when you support things that will damage society and harm children. This is what my experience tells me. It's a gray area where we are obviously on different sides. But to me, it's basically like a liberal has snuck onto the site and I feel compelled to respond. If I piss you off so be it. I honestly have very little respect for anyone who would defend pot use. To me, you're just another liberal.

[bramps]

No

[JustSayNoToNannies]

FYI:

You still didn't answer his question. Did YOU pay for your childrens’ education?

No

[bramps]

Who should make the decision at what age one can legally smoke pot?

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Who should make the decision at what age one can legally smoke pot?

Us, through our elected representatives, as we've done for alcohol.

[Hot Tabasco]

Would you seriously try heroin simply because it became legal? How many people do you know who would?

How many teenagers regularly get drunk and abuse other illegal substances on a regular basis? What makes you think they would have the common sense not to try it at one of their parties if it could be purchased legally? And lets add cocaine to the mix too...........

The potential for addiction to cocaine, crack or heroin is immediate upon first use unlike tobacco or your first beer which neither one was pleasant and required repeated use before you finally tolerated it.

The first and only time I tried coke, the high was immediate, the feeling was great and there was no foul taste in my mouth or a next morning hangover.......I had the common sense never to try it again. But then again I wasn't a teenager out to get high on weekends........

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Would you seriously try heroin simply because it became legal? How many people do you know who would?

How many teenagers regularly get drunk and abuse other illegal substances on a regular basis?

Are you a teenager?

What makes you think they would have the common sense not to try it at one of their parties if it could be purchased legally?

Nobody advocates legalization for teenagers. Teens report nationwide that they can get the illegal-for-adults drug pot more easily than legal-for-adults beer or cigarettes; the evidence is that the most effective way to keep pot out of teens' 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).

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I was just making a simple point that I should’ve known would go right over a pot fan's head

You weren't making a simple point. You were making a hyperbolic point intended to distract the small-minded among us, and hopefully, encourage them to adopt your retarded stance on the subject. I called you out on it.

The fact that a pot fan can out-conservative you on this issue should scare the living hell out of you . . . that is, if you're on the side of non-statists. If you're a statist, well, you can go eff yourself.

[Hot Tabasco]

Are you a teenager?

I was one once......so I think I can speak from experience.

[Hot Tabasco]

the most effective way to keep pot out of teens' hands is to legalize it for adults - so sellers have an incentive not to sell to kids

You're kidding me right?.....Where do you think underage teenagers get their booze from????????

I started drinking at the age of 17, in the summer of 1968 after I graduated from high school. NONE OF US were of legal age to purchase alcohol and had to rely on several 21 year old "ADULTS" who could....

[Hot Tabasco]

And as a side note, one such buyer kept our frickin money and never brought us the beer..........

[bramps]

You’re living proof of pot smoking changing one’s brain chemistry.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Teens report nationwide that they can get the illegal-for-adults drug pot more easily than legal-for-adults beer or cigarettes; the evidence is that the most effective way to keep pot out of teens' 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).

You're kidding me right?.....Where do you think underage teenagers get their booze from????????

Which part of "most" did you not understand? No known approach is 100% effective - but the evidence is that legalization for adults works better.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

You’re living proof of pot smoking changing one’s brain chemistry.

Based on the available evidence, I'd rather have his brain chemistry than yours any day of the week.