It's pretty easy to get your hands on marijuana in Marin County high schools and middle schools. Sounds like a problem, right? But maybe we can fix it.

How about we make it even easier for youth to get, but we raise money for programs to help them once they become dependent?

Or we smoke it in front of them and tell them they shouldn't, because telling a teenager to "just say no" usually works for them, right?

If this reasoning makes sense to you, then you'll be happy that Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom's Blue Ribbon Commission on Marijuana Policy agrees with you.

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