Richad Rhyner:  Mountain climbing is legal.  Does the fact that it is legal send out a message that it's "ok for you"?  If so then why are you not out mountain climbing instead of spreading your lies in here? Keeping pot illegal all but guarantees kids will have easier access to it.  The illegal street pot salesman does not check IDs and might have "other" substances to offer the kids as well i.e cocaine meth and heroin.  Pot should be sold in the cage at Sam's Costco Safeway etc etc alongside the cigarettes and liquor which a valid ID is required to purchase. Ingesting tobacco kills 88,000 Americans every year while ingesting pot has not killed one single person in the entire global history of mankind.  Prescripiton drug ingestion kills one American every 19 minutes.  If you REALLY cared about children and saving lives (which you obviously do not) you would be railing against the alcohol tobacco and pharmaceutical industries instead of the phenomenally successful legal pot industry.