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To: gusopol3
Pot and alcohol are each bad for developing brains. As I said, and got no relevant rebuttal: Young people report that they can get pot (which is illegal for all, except in a few states) more easily than beer or cigarettes (which are legal for adults). It appears that the most effective way to reduce access to marijuana by young people is harnessing the power of the market by legalizing for adults, so sellers have the potential loss of their legal adult market to discourage them from selling to minors.
43 posted on 09/26/2014 7:54:19 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

This distinction between developing brains and not, does it come into effect at age 70 or so?


46 posted on 09/26/2014 8:06:00 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

It’s hard to answer someone who argues against himself. Legalizing , “harnessing the power of the market, “ alcohol and cigarettes, has not limited the availability to minors. The Harvard / Northwestern study showed significant brain changes in “casual users;” that’s not something your pop psychologists at Psychology Today demonstrated in alcohol users. Legalizing most anything is going to increase availability because “ there’s no law against it. “ Furthermore, it’s well demonstrated that children pick up their parents ‘ habits. But of course, it will be only the’best parents” who will be buying marijuana, they won’t be smoking marijuana in front of their kids, or leaving a few joints around that will be easily picked up.

BTW, the trend may be down in Colorado for thinking this was a good idea: “

“Most of the attention paid to the new survey of Colorado voters by Suffolk University and USA Today has focused on what respondents had to say about the election contests for governor and U.S. senator.
But pollsters asked a lot of questions about other matters — including marijuana. And the results, issued Wednesday, seem to show a change in thinking about the legalization of pot.
Fifty percent of likely Colorado voters now disagree with the decision to legalize recreational marijuana in Colorado; 46 percent agree with that change.And 49 percent says they disapprove of the way the state is managing legal pot sales, versus 42 percent who approve.”

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/broadway_17th/2014/09/not-so-hot-for-pot-and-more-takeaways-from-new.html

I’m sure Soros can reverse the trend with an advertizing blitz though.


50 posted on 09/26/2014 8:23:42 PM PDT by gusopol3
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