Marijuana: John Hickenlooper compares teen pot smoking to underage drinking

Prohibition solves nothing. The issue of using pot will still exist for teens legal or not, just like it does for drinking, smoking, and sex! The morality of these decisions to use/not use should be left to the parents, not the government.

I wonder how many people have died as a result of the alcohol that Hickenlooper has made for people over the years.

he's wrong..

Personally, I think marijuana would be preferable to alcohol for teens.

Except you dont see kids getting car crashes, hit and runs, poisoning themselves and having their stomachs pumped with marijuana.. Lets look at the real facts and get our minds out of the old ways of thinking.

HickenDufus ran nothing but positive ads, no relative information on his experience. Yet he was removed from his position from his partners because he was tanking the biz's he over saw. But all the dem geniuses in this state votes him in over Tancredo! Lmao! Guess who supports legalization of pot? BWAHAHAHA! I really love it when "stupid" gets stung by its own arrogance.

What it boils down to, and what this once great nation has become, is we've a bunch of no-good loser parents who expect government to raise their children. Our state's motto should be "Bring the check, and the babysitter, because we're entitled to it." F'n sad it is.

Mr. Gov. So sorry that you see this as a smear to your future political aspirations. 64 would not move the needle any further from where it already is. I guess because you peddle alcohol it and prescription drugs are much safer in your view. You still have an election to win before 2016, why don't you do what you were elected to do and GOVERN COLORADO and stop thinking about where you would like to be.

Good! Ha! This sounds like a positive thing to me. Less alcoholics, more stoners. They're unproductive either way, but at least stoners are harmless.

Yeah, because kids aren't smoking pot as much as they're drinking already. Get in touch!

Right next to my dispensary we have donuts, a liquor store, & a nail salon... the only one that doesnt sell "toxic" is the weed store...

I remember in high school it was easier for me to get illegal drugs than alcohol.

Hickenlooper is simply proving that alcohol kills brain cells and leads to irrational behavior. He thinks since it is illegal all the kids who want to smoke are having a harder time buying it on the black market than if it were treated like alcohol? *face palm* Yeah John, like kids have ever had a hard time getting either, legal or not.

I insist my children do neither, a no-exception rule, and I still support legalization.

They are gonna do it regaurdless. I'd rather my kids smoke pot than drink.

I would have thought Hickenlooper above spreading the propaganda and half-truths about marijuana. Just goes to show you he's a politician and nothing more.

Aaahahaha!' HickenDufus....I never voted for that bonehead, you get what ya pay for Colorado!

We should ban all underage people from doing *anything* that is harmful that adults get the pleasure of doing. Keep them indoors, protect them from hearing anything on TV, don't let them be online, and don't let them eat McDonalds!

Oh and he wouldn't want people using pot to recreate to infringe upon his nice alcohol based business , or "alcoholic drug den" hahaha

He's out of touch if he thinks that pot is harder for teens to get than alcohol at this point. If anything, the usage will go down, due to more regulation of sales

My question is, how is this relevant at all? Why should all Colorado adults lose the right to make responsible choices just because some parents do a crappy job raising their kids? Plus, if my high school years were any indication, legal and controlled substances like liquor were always much harder to obtain, so this law could very well have the opposite effect. Hell, I don't even smoke weed. The whole Helen Lovejoy "think of the children!" routine just really gets my goat.

Oh, so then I guess he believes in alcohol prohibition then? Oh, wait...

Yeah, there's only one problem with that, Gov. Asshat:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/07/marijuana-usage-down-in-t_n_1865095.html

"...in Colorado, it appears that teen marijuana use is in decline while national use has gone up during the same period, according to data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS) report compiled by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The drop in use by Colorado teens, a drop below the national average, coincides with the same period that the medical marijuana industry developed in the state, between 2009 and 2011.

"To put it simply, teen marijuana usage has been going down in Colorado since the passage of our comprehensive medical marijuana regulatory model," Mike Elliott, executive director of the Medical Marijuana Industry Group, told The Huffington Post. "This is exactly the opposite of what opponents of medical marijuana predicted. Colorado’s teen marijuana usage rate is going down because this regulatory model has taken control away from the black market and given it back to our school districts, local and state governments, and the citizens of Colorado."

To summarize: go fuck yourself, you victims-fund stealing, poison-pushing douchebag.

Don't disagree. But should be legal. RT @DenverWestword Hickenlooper compares teen pot smoking to underage drinking http://t.co/r7ZdXre1