When I was a teenager if I wanted to buy beer I either needed a fake ID or a friend who's over 21 to buy it for me. If I wanted to buy marijuana I made a phone call and it was delivered to my house.
There is no problem with weed being readily available due to it being illegal. Whoever wants it gets it fairly easily. Making it legal would actually decrease its availabilityin this country, because it's distribution would be regulated, and there's not a marijuana dealer/grower in this country who would want to go through the trouble to to even try to compete with the prices that the gov't would be able to sell it for even with a substantial tax. Does marijuana cause societal and health related problems? Sure, but its criminalization has done nothing to rectify the problems associated w/ its use, and legalization w/ Gov't regulation of distribution would actually cause those problem's to decrease.
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