Why do men support legalizing pot, while women oppose it?

[patrice]

122. I don't know the meaning of statements like that, because the definition of "legalize" is

not clear. There are at least several different ways legalization could be configured.

Maybe men tend to have more "survival of the fittest" or "let them sink or swim and they'll learn about the world better that way" principles and women are more concerned about failure in the context in which legalization would occur, including factors such as the almost complete absence of any kind of help/counseling/remediation for problems that are already out there, without factoring in cannabis, and which problems include systemic issues such as the fact that children are being socialized, not by families, but because of the absence of full-time, or appropriate, parenting (not necessarily just in their own families, but certainly in the families of their children's cohort), they consider the possibility of failure to be significantly higher in ways that are not acceptable, because all problems including new potential problems are less under their own control and more due to what other people are or are not doing with/about/for problems with their own kids.

An obvious example of this kind of concern is the age at which any person is first introduced to drugs (of any kind) and alcohol. The earlier, the more vulnerable to substance abuse a person will be. My nieces are telling me that their children are encountering cannabis, completely WITHIN THEIR OWN SOCIAL GROUPS, on a regular basis here in Cupcake Land.

A related question could also be: how many children are already predisposed to vulnerabilities toward substance abuse by the status-quo widespread and long-standing use of prescribed psychotropic medications of various kinds to manage child behavior problems, so that parents can work and socialize, without any more restriction other than finding child care (which child care, btw, has absolutely no power to say or do anything about behaviorally at-risk children because to do so would cost them business). So, everyone just takes a pill for whatever and they never identify the personal adaptations that add up to autonomous-behavior-no-matter-what other influences they encounter.

And, then, those other influences include things, such as alcohol, that further biologically poison one's ability to remain autonomous, so when they might have had more reason to recognize their own dysfunction (because they are out and away from their parent's roof), it's too late and getting free again is significantly harder in ways that our culture further exacerbates, without providing any authentic support for real adaptation & learning other than the false-teachings of mutual self-admiration candy shops called churches.