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by brayton 3936 days ago
The main issue I see is how do we allow adults to dope while keeping children/teens away from it? Or would doping even increase with children/teens if it were more widely acceptable amongst adults? When I was in high school there were plenty of athletes using steroids - so already happening. Although I do believe that number would increase especially within high schools.
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johnward 3936 days ago
"Think of the children" is always the worst argument possible. This is about education as with all drugs and not that stupid "roid rage" video they made me watch with Ben Affleck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FvlIwuQBO8

There was an assumption that legal weed in Colorado would lead to more children using but data suggest the opposite happened. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/08/07/pot-use-among...

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moron4hire 3936 days ago
It's a bad argument, but I wouldn't say it's the worst. "Hitler thought of it first" is worse, but still probably not "the worst".

"I am rubber, you are glue" is a good contender. "Such-and-such argument is the worst" is probably pretty high in the running, too.

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kmnc 3936 days ago
Yeah, but honestly if doping was allowed in pro sports its a much strong assumption that college and high school kids would dope more then if kids would smoke more legal weed.

You cannot escape the reality that if doping is allowed then doping is required.

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johnward 3936 days ago
> but honestly if doping was allowed in pro sports its a much strong assumption that college and high school kids would dope more then if kids would smoke more legal weed.

No it's not.

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