Bottom line is, in virtually any state, anyone who wants to smoke/use marijuana can get it, and illegal status has hardly deterred youngsters from indulging, including in the super-potent stuff. Now that 11 states are fully legal, the horse is kinda out of the barn anyway.

I don’t disagree with any of that. But to go from that reality all the way to the gov’t sanctioning, regulating, and profiting from the sale of marijuana seems a big leap. I think as a society we should make it clear that there is a big difference between using low potency and high potency and a big difference between using it when you are young and using it when you are a mature adult. And we shouldn’t soft sell the fact there is a small minority of users who will have highly adverse reactions, and not the bad plane flight variety. (btw, I have so many friends with bad edibles stories. Like more bad stories than good.)

Not that I would ever judge a Knicks fan who popped an edible…

this C word sounds like “minimal”