Teen marijuana use declined this year, despite increased legalization

Red Alert Politics ^ | December 16, 2014 | Maria Santos

[Ken H]

A favorite argument of the anti-marijuana crowd is that legalization would send the wrong signal to the youth and make them think drugs are good for them. Except that, with increasing legalization across the country, that hasn’t happened yet.

In fact, teen drug use decreased in 2014, according to a study by the University of Michigan and the National Institutes on Drug Abuse. The same year Colorado and Washington’s legalization was in full swing, while two states and the District of Columbia all passed some form of legalization.

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Also notable: according to the study, marijuana has gotten slightly more difficult for teens to obtain. “Reported availability, on the other hand, is down significantly since 2013 in the two lower grades (and unchanged in 12th grade), which may help to explain the modest decline in use this year.”

[a fool in paradise]

Additionally we have the federal government circumventing the 10th amendment to force states to a 0.08BAC standard for drunk driving (headed down to 0.05, CDC is already doing the legwork; Sweden’s is 0.01) and age 21 drinking age.

Stoners are trying to argue that pot in one’s system does not equate to impaired driving. A bit late to be voicing this opinion, the drinking drivers have already been informed “1 is too many”.

But I guess the status quo being taxed and punished by procedural crime (one can missing from a six-pack ring is an open container but five loose sealed cans in a bag is not) is okay as long as it isn’t expanded into new areas (like marijuana)?

[tacticalogic]

I challenged you on consistency on the issue of using the ATF (and federal government) to tax tobacco and alcohol since you want sacred pot exempted from these taxes.

Having a national government of limited and enumerated powers means having to maintain the distinctions among the different enumerated powers. The power to tax is separate and distinct from the power to regulate commerce.

Conflation destroys those distinctions, and serves to obfuscate rather than clarify the issues at hand.

[ConservingFreedom]

That’s why, where pot is illegal, it’s easier for kids to get pot than alcohol.

Really? Source, please. Thanks.

http://www.casacolumbia.org/download/file/fid/640