say you find your kid having sex. are you going to tell them about condoms and whatnot, or are you just going to say "dont do that anymore" and hope for the best, or just ignore it and pretend it didnt happen? nice straw man. i didnt say legalize everything, i said prohibition doesnt work. it doesnt. that is beyond dispute. it didnt work in the 30's with booze, and it doesnt work today with drugs. if it DID work, we wouldnt even be having this discussion, because no one would use heroin, cocaine, pot or any of the myriad of other substances our government has deemed inappropriate. i think its silly for pot to be illegal, with as much money as we could make off of taxing it, why not? we tax cigarettes and alcohol, and regulate them too. should heroin be legal? probably not. although, we do have methadone clinics where you get a regulated dose legally... like i said before, people are going to use whether legal or not, so it does not seem like a terrible idea to me to try to make sure the people who are going to use are doing it safely.