So I was looking through some news today and this caught my eye.
This article was about a 4th grader in colorado selling Marijuana. The child here sold 4 marijuana brownies for 11 dollars. I thought this was interesting because although making marijuana legal can help with many issues regarding our financial status will it increase the amount of it sold through minors. And will legalization of marijuana make it easier for minors to have access to this?
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/04/colorado-fourth-graders-busted-for-selling-pot/
The legalization may make it easier for minors to acquire marijuana, but it does not necessarily create the motivation to do so. Whether or not marijuana is legal, we still see it finding its way into the hands of minors. Not commenting on the morality of this situation, but rather its presence in society. All society, not just places where marijuana is legal.
ReplyDeleteI don't think young kids selling weed is due to legalization. Back at egan I remember a couple seventh and eighth graders who would buy and sell it. That's only three or four years older.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Dave by saying that although it is less difficult to get marijuana, their desire to do the drug should not increase. I believe morals instilled by their parents, and the influences of their friends would allow them to do so. Either way, you have to be 18 to buy it and the kid is only 11.
ReplyDeleteI believe with the legalization it does indeed increase the supply but, as Casey said, not the demand. We all too often view the exception as the norm and I believe that is the case here. There will always be an anomaly with situations like this but the alarmist way that this is portrayed is just a form of propaganda in itself.
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