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Re:Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico by alexanderh on Saturday November 10, 2012 @02:11PM (#4767425)
I wonder what they did with alcohol to keep people from doing this same thing with it?
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Re:Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico by cglace on Saturday November 10, 2012 @02:43PM (#4767521)
All of the young kids that want to drink do. It's not hard to obtain alcohol underage.
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Re:Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico by jlgreco on Saturday November 10, 2012 @03:38PM (#4767660)
Though it is harder to obtain alcohol underage than marijuana.
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Re:Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico by w1ntermute on Sunday November 11, 2012 @01:02AM (#4768851)
Precisely because alcohol is legal and regulated, ironically.
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Re:Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico by cglace on Sunday November 11, 2012 @08:40PM (#4771255)
How so? It's this simple, "Hey mister". . .
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Re:Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico by jlgreco on Sunday November 11, 2012 @10:29PM (#4771459)
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.

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