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Date Posted: 10:45:29 04/14/08 Mon
Author: Jonathan Dunn
Subject: Re: Marijuana & National Review
In reply to: Jfish 's message, "Re: Marijuana & National Review" on 20:41:17 04/13/08 Sun

The argument given by those for the marijuana prohibition is that legalizing pot for adults will encourage the non-adults, who take those adults as their model, to also smoke pot. It doesn't matter whether those adults are parents or non-parents.

The marijuana advocate would argue one of two things:

1) If the non-adults aren't taking adults as their models, why prohibit marijuana for adults for the sake of not influencing non-adults? In other words, if, like you say, the kids are not trying to be like adults, then don't regulate adults in order to influence the non-adults.

2) But if kids do imitate adults, the marijuana advocate would argue that it is futile to use this imitation in an attempt to manipulate the non-adults into not using marijuana. In other words, the statistic is that the same number of non-adults use marijuana consistently during periods when adult use fluctuates. The non-adult use is not statistically dependent on adult use. So the marijuana advocate admits that non-adults imitate adults. But in the ensuing rivalry some kids try to distance themselves by being like their parents and some by being unlike. For example, one kid with a liberal pothead father might become a conservative dope-hater to create a distinction. At the same time, a kid with a conservative father might become a dope-fiend just to be different than the father. In the end, whether or not mairjuana is legal for adults the same number of kids will use it.

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Re: Marijuana & National Review -- Katelyn R., 15:11:40 04/20/08 Sun