Are you fine if your child has easy access to drugs and it being 'cool' to have drugs?
This is about not taking a clear public HEALTH issue into a criminal justice one.
Why do so many Americans think we can jail or kill our way out of every single problem?
I think a lot of this fear that legalizing drugs will lead to a bunch of non-drug users suddenly becoming drug addicts is simply hysteria. People use illegal drugs to self-medicate some other problem; healthy people are not suddenly going to want to be crack users.
A lot of the hysteria in Colorado prior to marijuana legalization was that youth consumption rates would increase. The opposite happened:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/11/follo...