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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It will be the same issue as we have with alcohol. Some kids will overdo it.

It is not legal for under 18 to smoke pot or cigarettes or drink alocohol.

And yet they do.

We have proven time over time making it illegal doesn't stop usage.

That's it.[/quote]

What scares me most, that NOBODY is talking about is secondary effects on children when the adults around them smoke.

With cigarettes, we learned (eventually), that if you breathe the smoke it can harm your health, even if you’re not the one smoking.  Kid who are around parents who smoke, are in effect smoking. A parent drinking a beer around a child will not simultaneously intoxicate their child. A child around a marijuana smoker is not only being exposed to the effects of the drug, it’s exposing them when they’re in a vulnerable state of development.

I don’t think anyone even knows yet, what the effects of chronic exposure to developing brains will be, but I think society will soon find out. We’ve had problems for years with education (high drop-out rates, behavioral problems in the classroom, graduating students who are unable or barely able to read, etc.). If our educational system has struggled with previous students, how is it going to serve a generation of brain-damaged students? [/quote]

Yes, agree with this.  So incredibly sad[/quote]

You are talking about kids who don't stand a chance anyway. Parents who sit around chronically smoking pot all day around small children are failing them in about 1,000 other ways. [/quote]

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