I'll relate another story here, that I have heard and seen countless times.
I live in California. We have the most libertarian medical marijuana laws in the country. Basically, what this boils down to is that for any condition a doctor thinks marijuana might be effective, including afterwork backaches, migraines and other things, (there are 11 medical pot states and some of them are aids and cancer only states right now) its not hard to get your card and get legal here in the state.
We are also the only state with a dispensary system. Medical pot dispensaries are operated as private non profit agencies, they are not operated by the state, which is a good thing because the private growers have much better bud than anything the government has ever passed out.
Parts of the state do not allow dispensaries, but the northern part of california, where I live, is full of them. And man o man... you would not believe these places unless you set foot in one to see them. The one I go to is like a walmart, always at least 30-40 strains of buds on the shelves, every kind of hashish you can imagine, candies, brownies, cakes, ice cream, they even have frozen dinners, like buttered pastas and such, all prepared with cannabis flowers.
Now these places are great places for adults that have followed the law and come there to enjoy their medicine. They really do make these dispensaries into nice places, safe, clean, friendly. I see lots of grandmas in wheelchairs, lots of old vets, and 20 somethings too.
The biggest problem at the dispensaries come from the breeders. When you join a cannabis club, they tell you to leave your goddamned brats at home and not even to drive into the parking lots. All of the dispensaries have a handbook of rules and suggestions from the medical cannabis lawyers on carrying your medicine and so forth so that you comply with the law. And one of those compliances is that you keep it away from kids.
You would not believe the number of shit head breeders that will try to bring their kids or babies in or drive into the parking lot with the brats in the car. Or maybe you would. And the security guards get downright nasty with these damn breeders and kick their asses out and revoke their memberships. Sometimes even the recommending doctor is called and told that their patient was bringing children around so that doctor can revoke the recommendation.
So here we have this really wonderful system, that works really well. People can get legal and never face any legal problems with the cops, and the breeders have to fuck it all up.
But breeders do the same thing with alcohol. I don't think children belong around liquor stores or inside liquor stores either, but no one says a damn thing about that.
Breeders simply cannot make a distinction these days about what is appropriate for children and what is not, and that's what makes them breeders.