children will be encouraged to learn the difference too. Moreover, gentler laws would soften the impact of their own violation: Under present laws, as has been pointed out, hard and soft drugs tend to circulate through the same channels; but under new laws, designed to regulate rather than to prohibit, even the younger teen-ager whose pot-smoking is still illicit will tend to get it from an older brother or friend who has legal access (much as he now gets beer), instead of from the specialist in illegal drugs.
5. Conservatives should take the lead in urging the decriminalization of individual use of marijuana.
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