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Originally Posted by BAckbOwlsgIrl
Because of medical marijuana, adolescent marijuana addiction has doubled.
However, all you need in Colorado is a hangnail and...voila...you have a marijuana perscription! It has been totally overblown here.
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Of course, adolescent consumption and reliance has doubled. "Everyone" is claiming to have a medical condition now. And now every annoying kid with any kind of tendency to be easily distracted is being diagnosed with ADD or ADHD as opposed to just being a kid. This nonsense would have been stopped at the onset if it was overwhelmingly low income whites, Blacks, and nonwhite Hispanics who were at the forefront of this. People who say this is only about decriminalizing marijuana are on the same bullshit as the people who deny the real foundations of the gun control debate and abortion debate.
As for when this will settle down, who knows. We shall see. We aren't the Netherlands. Just like using Europe and Australia as evidence for gun control doesn't work. There are factors that must be controlled for and I wouldn't say we share all the same common denominators with the Netherlands.
As an aside, marijuana has similarities with alcohol and prohibition but it isn't the exact same thing. But if marijuana is legalized across the US I foresee it being an even bigger pain in the ass than guns and alcohol in terms of government regulation and taxing, maintaining and restricting access, "pure" versus "tainted" marijuana, profit for companies that can legally distribute, what low-level drug dealers will do to find new profit, driving under the influence, etc.