Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard, @Blackberry, @marinelife, @Seaofclouds, zenvelo, @Leanne1986, @tranquilsea, @Blondesjon, @HungryGuy, @Neizvestnaya, @Soupy & @MollyMcGuire Thanks for confirming it wouldn’t change what you are doing now. I really think that is the take-home message the asnwers to this question highlight. It is interesting how many people said this, and how those who saw a big change coming in legalization envisioned a world run amok.
@glenjamin You survived it. Prepare them correctly and they probably will survive it just as you did.
@HungryGuy Yes, the crime rate dropped when we ended prohibition as well.
@Neizvestnaya It makes sense to be a defensive driver anyway. There are plenty of drivers today who ate fueled by ethanol (legal) or screwed up on who knows what (illegal, but still widely available).
@john65pennington, @Keep_on_running & @digitalimpression I am amazed that you think people free to do as they choose would be far more violent than the drug cartels and domestic narco-terrorists. Seems to me the current situation is the one you’d want to arm yourself against. I am as puzzled by that reaction as @Hobbes was.
@zenvelo I second that. I tried snorting coke a long time ago as well. I did it for a while. THen the guy who was selling it to me and his girld friend both had to get operations for deviated septums. That taught me to leave the stuff alone. I had snorted FAR more tha a single line. Yet I was most definitely not addicted. @john65pennington may have been told that coke is as addictive as meth, and may have believed it. But it simply isn’t true. I would note that crack cocaine is much more addictive than the natural product.
@woodcutter It might be more appropriate to pity them.
@Soupy Just as with ending prohibition, we could look for a drop in violent crime.
@mattbrowne Legislation to educate the public on what;‘s dangerous, and how to use the less dangerous substances safely; education like we;ve had before, which teaches baloney as if it were fact,; or re-criminalization?