We are a culture of high-seekers and substance abusers. Kids hear adults basically telling them, "Pot is harmless," or worse, even healthy for them. Cultural and media messaging is powerful stuff. Think Big Tobacco, and how pervasive that addiction was in the 1960s. It was okay to smoke while pregnant, in planes trains and automobiles, in supermarkets, everywhere. It's not a contest. Pot is not "safe" but pundits say it's safer than alcohol, which is only a partial truth. But the point is more that a vice is a vice, and adults are promoting another vice in pakalolo. My kid at first believed his peers doing drugs were stupid, but now after we talked about it, and he did some reading, he concluded that adults are way more stupid because they should know better, and are ultimately the real reason that kids start using. He came to that on his own. I like my child. He's astute.