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Originally Posted by Wolf13
The consumer.
You're forgetting the service provider. These people aren't going to retire, or seek gainful employment, or start moderating SSP. They're going to the next most marketable product they have and push the shit out of it, and find an end user. They always have.
Kids respond to stigmas as well as to the thrill, and this is about the psychology of it all... regardless of how weed isn't bad compared to other drugs, it was the illegal gateway drug. The curious consumer, or cool consumer, will look for the next illegal gateway drug. The danger might be relative to them. A lot of people will get bored with the legality of weed.
More crucially, they may have trusted relationships with these dealers, who will push products on them.
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This will never happen. Have you ever read about the prohibition of alcohol? The people who bought illegal booze did not suddenly switch to heroin or cocaine, once prohibition ended. They simply bought booze legally. The same will happen with pot. You're just repeating the same argument that the anti-legalization groups spew out. Nothing will change if marijuana becomes legal. Numerous studies in North America and Europe have proven this for nearly a century.
Besides, one can argue the biggest pusher of min altering drugs is the pharmaceutical industry. Death from overdoses of opiods and opiod derivatives has risen dramatically in the last 15 years.