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Originally Posted by heep223
Are you being sarcastic? What a backwards view. "Safe from it"? You really think that keeping pot illegal is going to limit your kids ability or desire to use it? Do you not remember your days in junior high and high school? It's extremely easy to attain, it's completely unregulated (so you don't really know what's in it which IMO is one of the biggest issues), it's relatively cheap, and it's lining the pockets of the criminal class.
Legalizing it will put it on the same level as alcohol. Regulated, more difficult for minors to get, and taxed. It will put the dealers, distributors and growers out of business, who are the real offenders and in some cases violent.
What's the difference between alcohol and marijuana, really? Remember alcohol was also illegal for a period of time. Do you drink? Alcohol is actually way worse for the body than pot.
Btw I don't use marijuana, nor do any of my friends or family.
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No I do not drink.
I do remember junior high and high school it was not that easy to get it (I went to school in Calgary so not some isolated tiny village or anything) and it was much easier to get the legal and regulated alcohol. Marijuana is much worse in my view than alcohol.
I think legalizing pot will definitely do more to legitimize so yes I think it will be harder to prevent my children from doing it.
Personally I think the better way to stop the criminals from selling it is to make the punishments real punishments not the weak punishments they have now. If you are caught selling you are in jail for life no parole. Caught with any marijuana even as little as one joint, ten years in jail minimum.