@Helen427 Just because something is legalized doesn't mean people will be suddenly irresponsible with it. Just because alcohol is legal for adults doesn't mean people get drunk on the job (except for Inna's cleaner) or that employers allow their employees to drink at work. The people who want to smoke marijuana are already smoking it, they always have been, they've just not been doing it blatantly out in public.
If they legalized heroin tomorrow, do you really think a whole bunch of people, or anyone, is going to say "Oh, awesome, I always wanted to be a heroin addict- it looks so cool to be nodded out in a doorway in the cold, looking like skin and bones"? The only people who might indulge in marijuana occasionally when it gets legalized, when they didn't before, are people like my son-law, who has a high profile job. He said when it was legalized in Canada, that he would be more likely to have a toke at a party if a joint was being passed around, than he would before, when he could be seen publicly doing something illegal. It isn't as if he's never smoked a joint in his life. But those aren't the kinds of people who are going to become stoners or get high at work or smoke a joint before driving the kids to soccer practice.
