It's about freakin' time. This is one promise he'd better keep. This is
LONG overdue.
Dean Adam Smithee, on 11 October 2018 - 06:06 PM, said:
I'm opposed. We don't need a nation of stoners.
YES, alcohol is legal but Cannabis isn't. So what?
You realize, I hope, that anybody who
wants to smoke pot can already get it anytime they want, anywhere they are. There's nothing "difficult" about it. It's in every block of every neighborhood of every corner of America. From the tiniest towns to the biggest cities, there's nobody anywhere who
wants to smoke marijuana but can't get it. So why would there suddenly be a "nation of stoners" after legalization?? People who want to smoke pot are
already smoking it, and people who
don't want to smoke pot aren't going to suddenly want to just because it's legal now.
Or at least, it
used to be easy for anybody to get marijuana anytime anywhere, back
before marijuana was legalized here in WA state. Fact is, after legalization, it's
harder for
kids to get it. Lemme explain:
Back when marijuana was still illegal here in WA state, obviously the only place to get marijuana was from a black market dealer. And equally obviously, black market dealers don't care who they sell it to. They don't ask for ID, LOL. If you had the cash, they'd sell you the pot. And that included underage kids.
But now that pot's legal and being sold at legally licensed state outlets, the price has been going steadily down (just as all of us who understood the subject predicted it would.) Legal pot is now much cheaper than it ever was when it was illegal, and the black market dealers simply can't compete. Why would you go to a black market dealer and pay $40 for something you can get for $15 at the legal store? So the overwhelming majority of black market dealers have either moved to another state (where it's still illegal), or gone out of business altogether. And that means there are
far fewer places where underage
kids can get marijuana because the legal stores
DO demand ID.
I'm sure truly determined kids will still find
some way to get what they want. They always do. I always did when I was a kid. But there's no denying it's now
much more difficult for them than it ever used to be. Isn't that a good thing?
B)