It's coming to be hard to control the boarder between unallowed and allowed age. Just like alcohol which is OK after 18 years, kids drink it before this age as well, let's be realists. So with drugs it is going to be the same story.
Actually, we see a reverse trend here.
The new federal data shows that adolescent marijuana use fell nationwide in 2016. In no states did the share of teens using pot increase by a significant amount, and in a number, including California, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey and Texas, rates of teen marijuana use fell considerably.
Use is up, however, among young adults age 18 to 25 and adults age 26 and up. Alcohol use, meanwhile, is falling across the board, according to the federal survey data.
In Colorado, for instance, the number of 18-to-25-year-olds using alcohol on a monthly basis fell by four percentage points between 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. That's the group with the highest propensity to use marijuana, suggesting that a number of young adults are opting to smoke weed instead of get drunk now that the option is available to them.
Source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/11/following-marijuana-legalization-teen-drug-use-is-down-in-colorado/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d27206015decHumans have the basic right to make choices for themselves as long as their actions do not harm others.
Individuals who are responsible in a free society must be allowed to choose whether or not they use marijuana. Individual freedom is a fundamental value.
Agreed entirely.
Governments can not control producing the drugs so they can not get taxes from them. This is why governments dont want to drugs are legal.
That's not true. In a lot of legalization legalization here in America, they explicitly define tracking mechanisms for seed to sale.