Tobacco Bad . . . but

I just saw one of those anti-tobacco Public Service Announcement ads mixed in with one of the previews for a DVD I rented. It followed the path of a cigarette butt as it was disposed into a toilet and went into the sea or some other body of water. The announcer grimly told us that the butt was toxic.  I skipped to the movie then.

Which got me to thinking.  As the marijuana cigarette is being welcomed into our society I wonder when the PSAs will be ordered and the Class Action Settlements be reached with the various state attorneys general in our country?  And before that, when will the commercials begin?  And will not the proponents of legalization finally admit that legalization will lead to an effort to market marijuana to new users?  It was recently revealed or learned that high school aged kids today are twice as likely as teens of two decades ago to have used marijuana.  (Here's a link to a site - www.drugabuse.gov - on that topic.)

How did that happen?  Medical marijuana laws perhaps?  Do the leaders of today want to return to the days of Barack Obama's high school graduation year of 1979 when nearly 40 percent of 12th Graders had used marijuana in the past month?

Everyone is afraid to be called square so we're all just letting it happen under our eyes.  Nancy Reagan was more courageous than we ever realized when she advised "Just Say No." The results of her leadership are as plain as day in the graph above.