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Of course age laws have worked. Adults are the smokers, drinkers and drug abusers.

Do you want a situation with kids being drunk in school because they can just go to a shop during break and get a bottle of Vodka, no questions asked?





Really?

30%+ of teenagers smoke weed

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/everything-you-and-your-...

Statistics for drinking

https://www.responsibility.org/alcohol-statistics/underage-d...

Even when I was in school in the 90s high schoolers were sneaking and smoking during school




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