How am I seeing both sides of this...

[taylweaver]

So some of the schools I work at are celebrating Red Ribbon Week this week, which is a weeklong focus on drug prevention. It includes wearing a red ribbon with an anti-drug message on it for a day

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[laura47]

we reserve alcohol for adults (at least legally), why not drugs? (not that i am saying actually agree with the 21+ alcohol age, cause i don't, but rhetorically. and i do think there should be some age, 6 year olds should not be at keg parties) not all drugs are the same. marijuana is not heroin. we should teach kids restraint and good judgement.

[margavriel]

Anyway, so my brain is apparently capable of agreeing with two viewpoints at the same time, even if they contradict each other. Go figure.

Strange. You must be on drugs. :-)

[hatam_soferet]

Makes sense to me. You're just looking at two shades of grey.

Kids are easily influenced etc, aren't yet capable of making good decisions, and their bodies are still growing and suchlike, so kids shouldn't be doing drugs of any sort, including marijuana (and tobacco, fwiw).

Also, if we're going to have legal tobacco for adults, for consistency we should have legal marijuana.

[mbarr]

Drugs = Illegal drugs.

If MJ is legal, it's no longer illegal. Thus, no real contradiction. You're not supporting using MJ while it's illegal, you're supporting the making it legal.

Also, I think they probably also are promoting a no smoking, wait on alcohol message. That can also be a wait on MJ... etc.

[wilperegrine]

Agreed.