A lot of people though get convicted of being dealers who really were not due to low requirements, like 5 or 10 grams. A lot of my pot head friends use to buy in bulk to save money and time (so they wouldn't have to be buying it all the time). Now occasionally they might sell a bit of it to a friend but they typically wouldn't make anything from the sale (just a favor so to speak).
One simple fact is people are going to do drugs, legal or not. Kids are going to be tempted to it as they are to everything that is prohibited to them (like sex, alcohol, and smoking) and also perceived as cool (but being cool is often tied to doing prohibited things).
Personally my suggestion would be just higher tolerance towards weed from law enforcement (which compared to smoking and alcohol is about the same). Allow people to grow a bit in their back yard, ignore small quantities, and encourage people not to smoke it publicly. That is more or less Canada's attitude (it depends on each city though). Law enforcement here mainly seems to be concerned with harder drugs, large dealers, and grow ops. In my youth in Montreal, the Police usually wouldn't even bother dumping what they found, often they would just give it back (unless it was a big quantity like half a pound or something).
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