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This is just proof that legalization ACTUALLY keeps the stuff OUT of teenagers hands.
When I was a teen, it was illegal. Everywhere.
Which meant that literally EVERYONE at school had it. I seriously did not pay for weed from 8th grade until about age 22, just because SOMEONE always wanted to party with the fat funny kid. Imagine getting to smoke weed with Chris Farley. Would you charge him? Or would you just invite him?
It wasn't until I was living with my girlfriend, and we wanted to smoke together that I realized "oh shit....I guess I actually have to go buy it."
And it was still illegal, which meant everyone had it. I just went to work, and asked literally the first person I worked with who they buy weed from. Turns out she grew/sold it.
It was illegal, and therefore unregulated, and therefore it existed freely.
Now, in most states it's legal, and thus regulated, and thus the black market can't exist.
The idea of teenagers NOT having free access to weed is absolutely foreign to me, but it's the world we live in today. Whereas I grew up in the war on drugs. Which used the D.A.R.E program to educate kids on how cool drugs are, where to get them, and then passed out free samples. Which went missing. Years later I heard conspiracy theories that the D.A.R.E programs ACTUAL goal was to get kids hooked on illegal drugs, so they could arrest them as young adults.
And honestly? I don't have much in the way of an arguement to dispute that. I'm not saying it's true. I'm just saying I have no arguement against it.
I think there’s a lot in this post about how times have changed. Notice the part about not being able to get time away from parents. Or not being able to get outside somewhere to smoke up. Kids these days don’t go out like we used to. Shit my brother and I used to haul our asses a couple of miles over some hills that had rattlesnakes to reach a video arcade. Our mom just made us carry a snakebite kit. OP now sits at home pecking at their phone asking how to go outside and gosh is it just impossible in suburbia? I am floored by this post.
They might have active parents lol. When I was growing up, very few parents cared what we were doing as long as we weren't flipping cars or coming home in a police cruiser.
Yup, it’s more just this. I go outside all the time, but it’s not really normal in my house to leave and just not say anything, even though I’m about to be 20 now. I have to make an excuse for everything, and it’s not really feasible to just say I’m going for a walk and then spend the entire afternoon getting high at a park.
My friend, life is ticking by. Get out there or you’ll miss it. Good luck.
Is that you, Farris Bueller?