| You appear to be saying that you had the opportunity to use cannabis when growing up, and managed to refrain from turning in to a stoner. That's how I read this comment - my apologies if I have misunderstood you. I am going to assume that you grew up in a country where alcohol was available to teenagers, to a greater or lesser extent. And yet you also - presumably - managed to avoid turning in to a raging alcoholic. Despite the availability of drugs and alcohol, you managed to avoid becoming a slave to either of them. The mere availability of drugs (of any kind) will not immediately turn your children in to stoners, alcoholics and junkies. The causes of addiction are deeper than that. As you said, you know what it is like to be a teenager. Teenagers experiment with various things that adults would prefer they avoided. Given that fact, let me ask you this: Assume your children are going to drink underage (it is statistically likely that they will). Would you prefer them to drink a) a bottle of beer that an older friend purchased on their behalf, or b) a jar of moonshine, which was homemade without any quality control, and might contain adulterants? This is not a rhetorical question, or a snarky one - I'm genuinely curious as to which you would prefer. > My point is that I don't want my kids being turned into stoners and that the law should be on MY side, not the guy pushing drugs on them. You seem to be saying that your children will be turned in to stoners if cannabis is easily available to them. Given that alcohol will be available to them, do you worry that they will turn in to alcoholics? If not, why not? If so, are you also campaigning to return to the days of alcohol prohibition? |