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Since kids report that they can now get marijuana more easily than cigarettes or beer, it follows that the best way to restict their access to drugs is to make them legal for adults only (thus giving those who sell to adults a disincentive to sell to kids - namely, the loss of their legal adult market).

I would like to see that report...

"44. Which is easiest for someone your age to buy: cigarettes, beer or marijuana?
31% CIGARETTES
14% BEER
34% MARIJUANA
5% THE SAME
15% DON'T KNOW/NO RESPONSE"

http://www.casacolumbia.org/download.aspx?path=/UploadedFiles/b0ooqrvk.pdf

Thank you.

A few things I find interesting...

Most teens who use alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana do so by the time they are 15. Among teens who admit to smoking, drinking or having tried marijuana, by age 15: 95 percent have had their first cigarette; 93 percent their first drink and 86 percent their first joint.

Also...

This year’s survey is the first time that a higher percentage of teens finds marijuana easier to buy than cigarettes and beer. Such teens have a risk of substance abuse one and a half times greater than average.

Teens who perceive marijuana as “not harmful” are at more than two and a half times greater substance-abuse risk than teens who think marijuana is “very harmful.”

One of the popular arguments from the pro pot crowd is how harmless it is...