Re:Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico
by alexanderh on Saturday November 10, 2012 @02:11PM
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I wonder what they did with alcohol to keep people from doing this same thing with it?
Re:Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico
by cglace on Saturday November 10, 2012 @02:43PM
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All of the young kids that want to drink do. It's not hard to obtain alcohol underage.
Re:Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico
by jlgreco on Saturday November 10, 2012 @03:38PM
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Though it is harder to obtain alcohol underage than marijuana.
Re:Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico
by w1ntermute on Sunday November 11, 2012 @01:02AM
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Precisely because alcohol is legal and regulated, ironically.
Re:Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico
by cglace on Sunday November 11, 2012 @08:40PM
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How so? It's this simple, "Hey mister". . .
Re:Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico
by jlgreco on Sunday November 11, 2012 @10:29PM
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From my experience, in the early 00's, getting pot in a public school was as easy as handing a 20 to the guy everybody knew sold it. It was literally easier to buy pot than a can of cola, as our school didn't have soda machines.
Alcohol? You could get a few cans of beer or maybe half a bottle of vodka, but anything more than that required a degree of planning or connections. Fairly easy, but nowhere near as easy as pot.
Pick a handful of communities in the legal states: Wealthy, suburban districts that went blue, but narrowly. Send a couple of guys to each one with ten pounds of marijuana and ten thousand dollars in cash. Have them recruit some bored 21-year-old stoners, give them each twenty bucks for snacks and a dozen rolled joints, and have them hang out at the skate park or movie theater or wherever and just pass out free weed.
Those joints will inevitably wind up in the hands of teenagers and even young children. Ramp up the operation enough, and you've got a full-blown weed epidemic. Without any further prompting, parent groups will petition the state and federal government to intervene, and if not repeal the law then at least impose enough additional restrictions to keep an illegal operation cost-competitive with a legit one.
Of course, there are lots of ways this strategy could fail or even backfire.