This is exactly what I am speaking about concerning the "new liberty" moving forward. It means people getting out of other people's shit unless they are really bothering you. Its understanding that a plant might be a medicine. If you had a choice of your kid being caught with YOUR oxycodone, pot, booze, cigs, meth, heroin etc . . . what ONE would you pick? To say none is a cop out that ignores reality. 4,000 kids under 21 last year died from alcohol. The truth is that DELAYED INITIATION is the proper approach to cannabis, not prohibition. Anyone who says its all about the kids should be campaigning to prohibit alcohol. I should know, i had a relative killed by a drunk driver.
http://www.ncadd.org/index.php/in-the-news/155-25-million-alcohol-related-deaths-worldwide-annually
The harmful use of alcohol (defined as excessive use to the point that it causes damage to health) has many implications on public health as demonstrated in the following key findings:
• Harmful use of alcohol results in the death of 2.5 million people annually, causes illness and injury to millions more, and increasingly affects younger generations and drinkers in developing countries.
• Nearly 4% of all deaths are related to alcohol. Most alcohol-related deaths are caused by alcohol result from injuries, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and liver cirrhosis.
• 6.2% of male deaths are related to alcohol, compared to 1.1% of female deaths.
• 320 000 young people aged 15-29 years die annually, from alcohol-related causes, resulting in 9% of all deaths in that age group.