What message do we send kid when we legalize pot? Is the implication that they’re responsible for their own decisions regarding right and wrong regardless of what government bans or doesn’t ban that horrible a thought? Because, you know, the state is wrong and acts immorally quite often. We tend to overestimate the power of government’s influence over children, anyway. This probably happens because politicians tend to see themselves as moral leaders. But marijuana usage has barely fluctuated for decades according to Gallup and it mattered not how loudly or empathically administrations promised to fight the problem. Within these decades of state activism — the one I grew up in – we were subjected to a barrage of infantile scaremongering from government that didn’t put much of a dent into usage or our perspective of pot – or much of anything else.