No shit, buying illegal drugs requires a face to face interaction. Everything that depends even tagentially on interpersonal skills is plummeting in engagement in the generation that learned most of thier social skills through a screen.
All went downhill since the silk road got shut down. Gotta find dealers the old fashioned way by word of mouth again.
You mean legalizing pot didn’t lead to a surge in teenagers using it, but in fact the exact opposite?
You’re telling me that when you end prohibition on a product and allow for ease of access and security of transaction through state sanctioned and regulated markets that underground markets dry up making illicit access almost nonexistent and ultimately drive down use of said product among demographics not allowed possession of the product under the law due to fear of businesses losing their licence given to them by the state?
Go figure.
cannabis is no longer sold by the teenager down the street that drives the firebird trans-am.
it is sold in cannabis shops, and no adults will sell it to kids.
that is why less kids have access. and it is why kids slam cars into cannabis shops to steal it.
Where do you live where kids are crashing cars into pot shops?
The United States of America. That is a small sample from one year from one state in the USA.
https://newstalk870.am/thieves-smash-car-into-gig-harbor-pot-store-video/
Ah so Seattle. My bad if that came across as not believing you, it’s just we have legal weed now in Jersey and I’ve never heard of that. Honestly most of our dispensaries look like banks with the level of security they have though.
Is the preferred car to slam into a cannabis shop a Trans Am?
Because if it isn’t then these kids are truly lost.
Yeah my dealer never ID’ed me. Legal businesses do. Go figure. The hardest part of smoking a joint as a teen was buying the tobacco.
Cool, now ban disposable vapes.
Edit: I’m pro-legalization for most drugs. Disposable vapes just result in too much unnecessary plastic waste.
Or, you know, prosecute the people giving them to kids and remove the tobacco license of those selling it to kids… Like you do when kids get alcohol or pot.
Disposable vapes need banned because of their effect on the environment. That’s not exclusive to kids.
That’s more fair but addressing that piecemeal by limiting freedom is stupid, instead of just requiring recycling or incentivising it like all successful bottle recycling schemes do.
The war on drugs is about as effective on Australias war on emu’s.
If you don’t know about the war on emus, check it out. It’s pretty funny.
I mean even for my generation doing drugs was only something losers who wanted to drop out did
Weird, in my generation (young millenial) and area (opiate ravaged rust belt) the losers did heroin, a ton of college bound kids smoked pot and drank occasionally, and the potheads dropped out of college to join the coast guard which was kinda weird considering how far we were from the coast
Or non of your friends told you because you where know for being straightedged ;)
There’s “doing drugs” and “doing drugs”.
Weed and alcohol were omnipresent in my school, and almost all of my old class have a university degree today.
Especially during the late teens/early twenties, a lot of my peers experimented with MDMA, speed or LSD. Most of them are well adjusted adults now.
These statistics are not about heroin or crack.
Wow you sound fun bet you only fuck for reproduction.
No, I’m speaking from the opposite perspective here but Lemmy is Lemmy so everyone’s jumping to conclusions
My bad you dropped this “/s”
