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Middle-aged parents are now more likely to smoke weed than their teenaged kids - Dan '82 - 09-03-2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/02/middle-aged-parents-are-now-more-likely-to-smoke-weed-than-their-teenaged-kids/
Quote:Smoking weed is often seen as an indulgence reserved for the young and the reckless: kids get high, in the popular imagination, but by and large their parents don't.
But new federal data show a stunning reversal of that age-old stereotype. Middle-aged Americans are now slightly more likely to use marijuana than their teenage children...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/02/middle-aged-parents-are-now-more-likely-to-smoke-weed-than-their-teenaged-kids/
RE: Middle-aged parents are now more likely to smoke weed than their teenaged kids - Einzige - 09-04-2016
This is a good sign for legalization. We'll see a lot more progress made on this front when marijuana stops being identified as something rebellious teens do and instead becomes the twenty-first century equivalent of a beer to relax with after work
RE: Middle-aged parents are now more likely to smoke weed than their teenaged kids - Odin - 09-06-2016
Weed's no longer cool, all the old people are using it!
RE: Middle-aged parents are now more likely to smoke weed than their teenaged kids - radind - 09-06-2016
(09-04-2016, 01:20 AM)Einzige Wrote: This is a good sign for legalization. We'll see a lot more progress made on this front when marijuana stops being identified as something rebellious teens do and instead becomes the twenty-first century equivalent of a beer to relax with after work
Legalize and tax drugs . Eliminate the drug cartel business.