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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gst" data-source="post: 52930" data-attributes="member: 373">Prohibition proved Americans needed a vice. The 20's were not that far removed from when opium "dens" and other drugs were legal and the results of ALL mind altering substances from the time were kinda known. The govt chose alcohol to be the "approved" vice. One can argue booze has ruined a lot of lives and has a negative effect on society and be telling the truth, but it is hard to argue that an addiction to booze has the same effects that impact society in differing ways as other harder drugs such as meth, heroin, cocaine ect.... (think inner cities here) And it has been shown that while both alcohol and pot can be "gateway" drugs, most times pot is more associated with "moving up the chain" to the more addictive drugs and the consequences they have on society. My question here is when we start legalizing things that were once illegal in the name of tax revenues and or "solving the problem" where do we stop? What drug is okay to legalize and which are not? 20 years after national pot legalization what other drug will be looked at?  What actions should be excused thru legalization and which ones should not. So when kids see adults argue for legalization of things that are illegal, when they become adults what will they argue for the legalization of? I still remember the feeling I got when we visited the Ward county jail in 3rd grade. Each of us kids were made to go stand at the back of a cell and the deputy slammed the door shut and left us there for a very short time that seemed like eternity. I raised my share of hell in high school and a little more maybe, but that slamming door sticks with me even today. As I have said before, as a parent I appreciate the fear/concern that may exist in a kid of being locked up to keep them/slow them down  from smoking weed/downing a Budwiser behind the dumpster in 5th grade. I guess I am not ready to have my 17 year old argue that in one year he/she can legally smoke weed so whats so wrong with doing a little X now.</blockquote>

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