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Well... no, but neither is it a match for, say, thousands of years of drug abuse. And yet... Perhaps our parents have something to do with that?

• barbazoo 3y ago
  When I was a kid, all drugs were illegal, at least to me as a minor. My parents had the alcohol is bad and cigarettes are bad talks with me but even if I wanted to drink and smoke, it was hard to access until I got closer to the age where it was allowed anyway.
  • squigz 3y ago
    When I was a kid, all drugs were illegal to me too. Yet my parents had cigarettes, coffee, alcohol, and weed in the house. Me and my siblings didn't touch them. That has something to do with the law?
    • sickofparadox 3y ago
      Likely not the law of the government, but I'm certain the law of your parents had something to do with it.
      • squigz 3y ago
        That's, uh, sort of my point here :)
• jvanderbot 3y ago
  Kids will mostly do what they see others do. This makes drugs less difficult to dissuade. It makes phones and screens particularly pernicious. "do as I say, not as I do" is not always good enough. I have kids. They watch movies with us, and the nanny gives them more screen time than I'd like. I don't have to talk to them about drugs because nobody is handing my kids drugs. But screens are everywhere and I use them all the time, sadly.
• jimbokun 3y ago
  And yet...we don't recommend parents allowing their middle school children to try addictive drugs.