ladajo wrote:And as we discussed before, the national data says that there is a baby boomer "hump" in drug use reporting. There is also a corrosponding "hump" of users in the baby boomers children.
Yes. The Hump. Going from 40+ % to 50+% "ever used in your lifetime".
The med pot states are a death blow to prohibition. Old people talk to each other. "It eased the pain of my ___ when nothing else worked."
The CB1 and CB2 systems are some of the most pervasive and yet least studied systems in the body. Why? Well the information might cut into the remnant of support for prohibition.
My mom (age 92 going on 93) used to be in the prohibitionists camp as were most of her relatives. That all changed when a member of the family got 10 to 20 for a few ounces of pot.
Prohibitions defeat themselves. If you enforce hard enough to make it sorta work you develop a LOT of bad will.
What amuses me is history. The left won the election of 1932 on a wave of anti-prohibition sentiment (among other things). I'm sure they will do it again in 2016 or 2020 if the prohibitionists don't see the light. "Conservatives" are their own worst enemy. Mainly because the have a limited time frame of observation. They want to preserve the "eternal" verities of 30 years ago forgetting that those verities are only 30 years old.
Like it or not prohibitions that affect more than 5% or so of the population (does 40% to 50% count?) last about 50 years. Nixon (one of the greatest American Presidents ever /sarc) declared a war on hippies and the left in 1972. Only he was going to go after something they commonly did rather that making their crime strictly political - clever that boy.
So if you add 50 to '72. You get 2022. Time is about up.
If legalization passes in one state in Nov there will be a push on for 2013 and 2014. If more than one state legalizes there will be a full court press. Especially given how faith in government solutions is declining.
I'm always amused at "Conservatives" who demand a government solution for _____. Typically - "I hate collectivism but without collective action on ...". Now I will admit that there are a few things that require collective action. But not near as many as conservatives and liberals think.