Pot Legalization makes it harder for kids to find Pot

[martybegan]

Marijuana legalization is making it harder for kids to find pot - Hot Air

Interesting article, however even the Hot air writer is a bit skeptical about it.

Prior to legalization there was only one way to buy pot and that was from criminal street dealers. They wouldn’t tend to be the most scrupulous in terms of customer selection to say the least so high school kids with sufficient funds would be able to find somebody to sell to them. (Where a demand exists a supply will arise.) Once legalization hit, customers – primarily adults, of course – were able to buy it at a distributor or grow their own without fear of prosecution. Who wants to risk buying from an illegal street vendor when you can get your weed without worrying about the cops? As the demand for street pot plummets, fewer suppliers remain. Kids don’t have the same option to buy at a marijuana dispensary and probably don’t own a piece of property to grow it, so availability goes down.

If illegal vendors are decreased by legalization, and the legal stores follow the regulations on age, it would make sense that kids would find it harder to get pot.

Of course, that may lead to an increase in huffing glue and paint, which is much more dangerous, but no one thing lives in a vacuum from everything else.

 

[jon_berzerk]

--LOL

 

[TNHarley]

It makes sense. Especially if you look at historical de-regulations like alcohol.

 

[martybegan]

It makes sense. Especially if you look at historical de-regulations like alcohol.

it only works, however if the local governments don't go apeshit on taxes for pot. If they do, you change the top end black market into a bottom end black market.

 

[TNHarley]

It makes sense. Especially if you look at historical de-regulations like alcohol.

it only works, however if the local governments don't go apeshit on taxes for pot. If they do, you change the top end black market into a bottom end black market.

Bingo

 

[Moonglow]

It's getting harder for adults to find pot also..In states that have not legalized it...

 

[Rexx Taylor]

It's getting harder for adults to find pot also..In states that have not legalized it...

if they cant find pot, they can always find oregeno at their local grocers. doesnt it have the same buzz?