What evidence is there that this would be the case? Alcohol is legal, yet hardly anyone is drunk all of the time, and alcohol has far more bad things related to it than marijuana.

You might drive safely, but the idiot high-as-hell teenager next to you might crash into you and kill you.

The same can be said about alcohol, prescription drugs, cell phones, music, etc.

The government doesn’t know how to regulate it and get rich off of it. If it did, weed would have been legal a long time ago.

Oh, they know how to get rich off of it, except the money they make is for themselves, since it is given under the table from the corporations’ lobbyists. If they taxed marijuana, the money would have to go back into programs that benefit the community, and thus our elected leaders wouldn’t be getting rich off of it.

It’s a good thing that kids can’t just get weed from anywhere. If it were legal, they’d be smoking it every day.

Well kids, if you’re using the legal term of someone under 18, wouldn’t be allowed to use it, just like people under 21 aren’t legally allowed to purchase or consume alcohol. Marijuana would be handled in the same way as cigarettes and alcohol.

Also, I think in saying that they’d be smoking it every day, you’re using a logically fallacious argument called misleading vividness.

The steroids issue is baseball is about the kids too. Nobody really cares about the athletes doing drugs except for when it’s NOT behind closed doors.

I disagree with both points, but neither of us can prove it one way or the other.

Personally, I believe that if some kid is using steroids because Jose Canseco used them, then that’s the kid’s parents’ fault, not Major League Baseball or Jose Canseco’s. Athletes and other celebrities are not babysitters.

I agree with you the drug laws are in place not because of moral reasons, but because of financial ones. The government doesn’t know how to regulate it and get rich off of it. If it did, weed would have been legal a long time ago. However, I’d rather that barrier to access exist than not. It’s a good thing that kids can’t just get weed from anywhere. If it were legal, they’d be smoking it every day.

The steroids issue is baseball is about the kids too. Nobody really cares about the athletes doing drugs except for when it’s NOT behind closed doors. Once out in the open, then it’s all about, we can’t let the youth in America believe steroids are necessary in order to become a pro athlete. And I’m fine with that. Again, the good parents will handle their business properly. But most parents are morons who probably shouldn’t have had kids.

I don’t know. It’s not an easy problem to find a solution to. I personally don’t care about athletes taking drugs. I believe they all do it. They’re pro athletes, it’s their job to get the most out of their physical abilities. If drugs help… fine. But I do have a problem with it being out in the open. MLB has managed this very poorly.

Sometimes it’s not about right or wrong, as it is about doing the right thing. I agree it’s stupid for weed to be illegal and alcohol legal, but maybe it’s best that way.

You know how that death could have been prevented? By legalizing marijuana.

If marijuana was controlled and taxed by the government, people could buy it in stores just as they do cigarettes and alcohol, and wouldn’t have to buy it from shady, armed drug dealers who may or may not have laced the drug with something else, like PCP.

Prohibition always creates a black market, and the big, bad drug dealers today are a result of that black market. Drug legalization would remove that black market, and, subsequently, the shady dealers.

Deaths in the U.S. went down for about a 30-year period after alcohol prohibition ended in 1933 — coincidence?