Thanks for your comment. You discussed two things here: legalization
and use.

I completely understand where you're coming from when you say you
don't want to see your kids using drugs. On that basis, you should
seek the most effective way to prevent them from using drugs. You
need to recognize that the best way to accomplish that goal is to
support regulation. Your kids will have access to cannabis long
before they have access to alcohol, and this is the sole reason:
alcohol is regulated and cannabis isn't.

Call it legalization if you want, but regulation is the best way to
eliminate black markets while simultaneously limiting access to legal
adults. Prohibition fails on both counts. In fact, the strongest
opponents of legalization are drug dealers, because they would have to
get jobs if their products were legalized. As a parent, you need to
say, “I will no longer support drug dealers. Instead, I will support
regulation.” That's right – it's you and the drug dealers, united by
a common interest.

Really, I don't think you support drug dealers, but you need to
realize that your actions actually do have that effect.

Try this for me: think about your kids trying alcohol, and then try to
argue that we should criminalize alcohol in order to prevent them from
trying alcohol. Of course, there is a constitutional amendment
repealing the prohibition of alcohol, but ignore the constitution for
a moment. Do you think we would be better off with alcohol
prohibition, and the organized crime and violence that came with
it? …or, are you more comfortable with the knowledge that we saved
lives by legalizing alcohol, and you now enjoy the additional comfort
of knowing your kids will be old enough before they can try alcohol?

To sum it up, it's fine to say you don't want your kids to try drugs.
However, that is totally different from saying you don't want anyone
anywhere to try drugs, and you need to recognize all of the
consequences that precipitate from that difference.

Thanks

I have been writing about this for years since 1987 when I became conscious of the evil of cocaine prohibition and the dopes who say that 'cocaine' is a bad drug rather then what it got bastardized into.

The above link contains links to my various papers, including the three published by the DPF during the early 1990s.