Should Weed Be Legal?

[OmarFW]

It being prohibited probably entices more people to try it and I don't see what's the point since alcohol is legal...

Exactly. Many young people want to do what they aren't allowed to do simply because they aren't allowed to do it.

Weed, while basically harmless, is something that should only be done with responsibility. Teenagers should not be doing something that could get them arrested and have a permanent stain on their record and most teenagers are too naive to not get caught.

This of course would be resolved by legalizing weed so there would be no danger of a kid getting a strike on his record for something so insignificant.

If you don't allow things like weed, then kids will just try things like alcohol or tobacco which are more easily accessible and far worse. You can't keep your kids from trying things like these so parents might as well endorse the lesser 'evil'.