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   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   Brother Nate wrote:   
   > B Sellers wrote:   
   >>         Well if it is bad for kids then it should be legalized and regulated   
   >> as with alcohol.  Kids still get alcohol one way or another but   
   >> in far lesser   
   >> numbers than if it was unregulated.  Right now cannabis is   
   >> available to   
   >> the majority of young people on short notice.   
   >   
   > There are several good reasons for legalization but this   
   > really isn't a very good one.  Kids only get MJ because   
   > there are people who think it's ok to sell it to them, and   
   > that isn't going to be magically turned around just by   
   > making it possible for adults to walk into a store and   
   > buy it.   
   >   
   > This is liable to be one of the biggest moral quandaries   
   > of a post-legalization US - for years the young people   
   > who have been buying into that belief that "it's just weed,   
   > it's no big deal" have been boxing themselves into a   
   > mindset where they literally cannot allow themselves   
   > to see why mainstream America might not share their   
   > view that it's just not a problem to sell pot to kids.   
   >   
   > I would truly like to believe that people are going to be   
   > more responsible about post-legalization attitudes when   
   > it comes to selling drugs to kids, but the overwhelming   
   > majority of the opinions I see are still stuck in that "it's   
   > just weed" mentality, and that's just not going to turn   
   > around the problem of abuse by minors.   
      
   	When you have a government license to sell alcohol   
   you are careful of the buyers because willful sales to minors   
   can lose you that license to print money.  If similar restrictions   
   are applied to the cannabis shops then similar care for   
   one's source of income is to be expected.   
      
   >   
   > --   
   > Brother Nate   
   > bronate@gmail.com   
   > Moral Compass   
      
   	later   
   	bliss   
      
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