[Senator Clay Davis]

Marijuana, when eventually legalized, should be treated no different than alcohol and cigarettes. Educate people on the risks and dangers, and so long as you do that then it's on people to enjoy in moderation. But there are risks to drinking and smoking cigs, just as there is marijuana. The legal age should probably be 21 just to be safe.

A few weeks ago New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd went to Colorado and tried some edibles and had a really bad trip....because she didn't take even the slightest initiative to find out about what she was consuming. She bought it and ate it, didn't ask for any information as she purchased, didn't research anything at all. Had she known that the bar was divided into 16 pieces and that 1 piece is a single dosage (of course she ate 4 times that), she wouldn't have had the bad experience.

She proceeds to write a column about her experience and rightfully gets ripped (no pun) by most people for not finding out what she was doing. Your first time drinking, you don't go out and get a bottle of Everclear. That's what needs to be done when pot is eventually legalized, there needs to be education as to how to best enjoy pot in moderation. That's what's good about Amsterdam, the budtenders at the coffee shops are helpful to people who don't smoke regularly.