Why marijuana's moment has arrived

CNN ^ | August 11, 2014 | Julian Zelizer

[eddie willers]

the possibilities of negro jazz musicians having relations with white women under the influence of the demon weed.

Kim Kardashian put the lie to that.

[discostu]

He certainly was very good at being famous. But he actually did some real science, and he made money. Clearly a winner. Maybe you can’t be bothered to remember his contributions, but people who work with the results of the Mariner and Galileo missions remember them just fine.

[DiogenesLamp]

Amen but ours is not a popular position.

Given the state of our Populace, thank God for that!!

[GeronL]

Post something about the bad effects of porn and they show up to accuse you of being a perv.

[ConservingFreedom]

even casual use among young adults was enough to cause significant brain abnormalities in two important brain structures.

Young adults are well advised not to mess with their developing brains. As for the most effective public policy for achieving that end, see post #156.

[TexasGator]

“Looks like the best policy for keeping drugs out of kids’ hands is to legalize them for adults; this gives sellers an economic incentive to sell to only adults.”

Great selective editing. The paper says that the survey shows that marijuana is now easier to obtain than before. I guess ‘normalization’ of marijuana is leading to it being more available to teenagers.

[GeronL]

Looks like the best policy for keeping drugs out of kids’ hands is to legalize them for adults;

dumbest thing I ever heard

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yep

[Salamander]

Yeah, that’s a good way to look at it....:)

[RKBA Democrat]

I’m glad to see the idiotic war on (some) drugs failing. Marijuana should be legalized by those states that wish to do so. Its far too expensive and counterproductive to jail the stoners.

The actual experience of legalization in CO has been a big nothing burger. The four horsemen of the apocalypse have not descended. About the only thing that has happened is the stoners are no longer being tossed in jail, and the state is going to generate about $100 mil in extra tax revenue this year. I ask myself: who would I rather see taxed, myself or stoners? That’s an easy question to answer.

[ConservingFreedom]

"a higher percentage of teens surveyed finds marijuana easier to buy than both cigarettes and beer." National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse, http://www.casacolumbia.org/download/file/fid/640

Looks like the best policy for keeping drugs out of kids' hands is to legalize them for adults; this gives sellers an economic incentive to sell to only adults.

Great selective editing. The paper says that the survey shows that marijuana is now easier to obtain than before.

Where in the paper does that statement occur?

[ConservingFreedom]

"a higher percentage of teens surveyed finds marijuana easier to buy than both cigarettes and beer." National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse, http://www.casacolumbia.org/download/file/fid/640

Looks like the best policy for keeping drugs out of kids' hands is to legalize them for adults; this gives sellers an economic incentive to sell to only adults.

dumbest thing I ever heard

Facts are stubborn things.

[GeronL]

pot, meth, coke... itz for the childrun

[GeronL]

Opinions are stubborn things.

I don’t believe “studies” and crap I see in the news any more.

[tacticalogic]

Somebody in my favorite bar put “Right Down the Line” on the jukebox Monday. Now you mention Gerry.

He survived everything but the whiskey.

[ConservingFreedom]

I don’t believe “studies”

This study is from an anti-drug organization, which views the finding with some alarm.

[stephenjohnbanker]

These people don’t care about societal decay.

[Responsibility2nd]

Looks like the best policy for keeping drugs out of kids' hands is to legalize them for adults; this gives sellers an economic incentive to sell to only adults.

Troll, you know that banning cigarettes and liquor to minors works so well (sarc). So with your "drugs are good" agenda here at at FR, you really want to advocate legalization thinking that minors won't be affected?

You are naive as well as stupid.

[ConservingFreedom]

These people don’t care about societal decay.

Why should we believe laws can prevent societal decay?

[ConservingFreedom]

Troll, you know that banning cigarettes and liquor to minors works so well (sarc).

Better than banning pot for everyone has, as I have shown.

So with your "drugs are good" agenda

Still waiting for you to show where I ever said drugs are good.