Because of the draconian laws in the US on drugs, kids evolved from smoking weed, drinking booze to snorting pharmaceuticals and abusing prescription drugs. Which is now an epidemic in the US.
Portugal decriminalized all drugs in the early 2000's and the results have been oustanding.
All these arguments that if we legalize it "think of the children!" are the same things you should be as deeply worried about when it comes to alcohol which has far ranging dangers, and prescription drug abuse which can be worse than both alcohol and cannabis combined.
Harvard study not long ago added to the long list of studies refuting mental health issues being caused by smoking cannabis, yet this myth continues.
Of course we don't want kids taking drugs, drinking, abusing prescription drugs, education, good communication with your kids, etc.. But we all know its often the people your kids hang out with that determine if they end up doing these things more than not.
Its just this war on drugs has been a catastrophic failure on so many levels in so many nations, its time we started to take an adult look at how we move forward as a society. I admire Portugal for decriminalizing all drugs, I think eventually we will have to look at even legalizing all drugs and controlling them.
The devastation that would do to cartels, gangs, criminals if this started to happen world wide would be enormous.
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