Because they influence our children and grandchildren. My children never fell into this habit (”Mom would kill us!) but I don’t have the same control over my grandchildren. Scares the bejeebees out of me.
Ya, ya, ya. I know, it is illegal to bring it on campus or to smoke it if you are under age. It is a lie or naive or both to think that it won't happen more often.
I have seen this in my life. I had a friend like myself—a nerd—He wrote science fiction stories and they were good—better than mine. But he turned Hippie in college—smoked pot all the time and moved on the LSD and other drugs. He thought it made him more brilliant—it didn’t. He dropped out. Now he is a shell of what he was—walking the streets, living with his long suffering mother. He could have done great things if it wasn’t for pot. It has ruined too many people over the years. The best and brightest and being lost to us by this drug craze. Boose is bad enough why add to it?