"What we oppose with ferocity is making it (cannabis) as common for children to obtain as alcohol and cigarettes are now.Stephen Baldwin & Kevin McCullough
Legalizing it across the board creates easier access for children who we suppose would still be legally prevented from "purchasing" it. This doesn't even preface the fact that cigarettes are now thought of as a greater evil to children than sex offenders."
I just hope that Baldwin's lazy thinking doesn't get blamed on his past use of cannabis. I love how he brings up cigarettes. What an opening. Thanks Mr. Baldwin. Let's talk cigarettes/marijuana and kids.
In my home state of Massachusetts, only one drug program has really had widespread success. The tobacco program and no arrests were needed to get these results. Not even for those caught selling to minors.
In Massachusetts over the last 30 years, tobacco use has dropped big time with both adults and children. During the same period of time, with many arrests, what happened on the cannabis front? Higher rates of use for both children and adults.
Baldwin also states that only cannabis users want it legalized. Is it only the potheads that can grasp these facts? Not. Because 65%, 1,900,000+ people in MA recently voted for decriminalization of cannabis. Not even half of those who voted for decrim use cannabis. Just another Baldwin oversight?
Does Mr. Baldwin want to pretend that 65% of voters smoke cannabis? Well if that were actually truth, then wouldn't that only go to show that the war on cannabis users is a huge failure? 65% smoke weed? What drug survey backs this as a fact? None. Not even the government's own reefer mad, funded ONDCP would float this nonsense.
And Massachusetts is hardly unique. Bruce Mirken from MPP comments on results of questionaire on teen tobacco and cannabis use in Nevada.
"Bruce Mirken, director of communications for the Marijuana Policy Project, said marijuana use by teens today is still greater than in 1993, when the Youth Risk Behavior Survey found 36 percent of Nevada high school students said they used the drug.
He said a regulated system where only adults can acquire the drug in legal outlets will cut marijuana use as it has reduced teen cigarette use.
Mirken said the surveys found 30 percent of teens smoked cigarettes regularly in 1993, before the advent of the We Card system, compared with 18 percent today."
Email Stephen Baldwin and ask him why he supports prohibition that increases teen drug use while tobacco regulation and education has reined in teen cigarette use.
info@stephenbaldwin.com
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