Answer the question like a child or from their perspective? Children are idiots like 2U, their perspective doesn’t matter. We’re the adults our job is to give them perspective as best we can until they are adults. Will they listen to us? Sometimes yes, a lot of times no. I mean the science is pretty clear everywhere the adolescent/child’s brain can’t handle any sustained abuse of really any substance. All we can do is give them the truth. And of course the best advice of all, “There’s a time and place for everything… It’s called college”
If your argument is that we’ve swung too far the other way and are treating marijuana as harmless. Yeah I’d agree with that, we spent 40 years scare mongering and that’s just as untrue as it being harmless. Just like alcohol and tobacco it’s harmful and can be abused and we have many laws already to keep these things from children. And adults should be free to make their own life running decisions.
But once again the question? Why is this issue special enough to invoke “thinking of the children” vs other issues effecting children
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Children are by definition our society’s future that is why.
It is ONE of many issues affecting children. So what?
Why make it more available and by detailed statistics more damageable? The state of Colorado is a great example.
Is it more available if it’s decriminalized or legalized and regulated?
There was never a time–never–from middle school on that getting MJ, uppers or downers was a problem. Never. They was cheap and accessible. Lots of acid, too.
Cocaine was not as it was too expensive, but I’d suppose crack fixed that problem.
Keeping the war on drugs going solves nothing. It’s been a giant failure. We’ve created a permanent underclass through mass convictions. We’ve broken up families. We’ve militarized the police. Stupid all the way around.
At times in the past , I supported the program, but
must concede it hasn’t been as successful as hoped. The term “war on drugs” appears to have been coined in 1971 during the Nixon admins policy, per wiki.
So after 50 or so years we probably need to reevaluate the whole aspect of it. From source countries to the individual consumers and how foreign policy , police tactics, and legal handling of users are done.
If “available” means something to the effect of “more openly and conveniently purchasable,” then the answer is likely YES!!!
How so?
Well, consider this.
The last time that I took a trip to Portland (2018), I saw a legal pot shop on seemingly every corner. You could hardly throw a stone without hitting one.
Compare that to TX where you are most likely going to have to buy your pot underground and at great risk of being exposed and arrested/punished for it.
Given that, I’d say that legalizing does make pot more “available,” at least in that regard, not that people that are in the know can’t find it and get it anywhere.
When I started smoking cigarettes cost $.40 a pack. When I quit they were $2.65 a pack. The current average price per pack in Texas is $6.70 with $4.57 being taxes. Even if they were safe I wouldn’t pay the taxes.
I think he was talking more about access for kids. Extremely easy when I was in middle school and high school to get it. I can’t possibly think of it being more available for teenagers. I’ve never done any illegal drugs, but 100% support legalizing marijuana and decriminalizing other drugs.
As for some, they worry about the kids when it comes to drugs being available but put 100% of the blame on parents for poor education, healthcare, nutrition, etc. Need big government to protect us from those evil drugs.
A teenage drug dealer in California was charged with murder Tuesday after selling fentanyl to a 12-year-old girl who fatally overdosed… The girl had allegedly asked the suspect for an “M-30” pill, an oxycodone pain reliever that is far less powerful than fentanyl. She then crushed the pill and snorted some of it as her friends recorded a video, before passing out and snoring — “a telltale sign” of a fentanyl overdose, officials said. She was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later.
I don’t agree with making all drugs legal…But this what happens when government makes laws putting people away for 99 yrs for having a joint. What it does it chips away at the legitimacy of all drugs restriction laws…Just like using national security laws to restrict people’s access to information on there own government not to say government doesn’t have legitimate reasons to non disclose certain information for national security reasons. It’s a slippery slope for free society when government support certain restrictions on certain drugs that should have never been criminalized in the first place. With Nixon’s war on drugs, which was used to incarcerate minorities namely black folks ( black panthers) and anti-war protesters ( hippies) which were considered to be anti-establishment
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How does it feel living in NYC or San Francisco? The San Francisco elected officials are now telling their constituents to go ahead and leave the windows down and car doors open. Oh yes the trunk too.
