When you think about it, it's a better drug for older / established people to use. People who either work 9-5 jobs, or are retired or semi-retired, etc, are the ideal users. They might want something to help them relax, giggle, zone out as they sit on the couch at the end of the day (like the woman quoted in the story). And when you live in your own home, without the danger of Mom busting you with a bowl under your bed, it makes it fairly low-risk in terms of law-enforcement danger or using and driving. As opposed to teenagers who end up smoking in the public park, behind the bleachers, and other places where they might be apprehended; and/or smoking and driving (which I'm not convinced is a huge danger, but will get you in a lot of trouble anyway).
In a sense, teenagers are the worst people to use it - the occassional paranoia / anxious introspection that results is much harder on those in the awkward, self-unsure stages of life. Once you're a grown man or woman with a job and a spouse, you can kind of shrug that stuff off. And teenagers, I would guess (no stats to back this up) are more likely to use it to seem cool or to maintain an outlaw-stoner "persona" rather than because they simply find it pleasurable as a private personal matter.
I concur with those who have raised the call to seriously re-examine our ongoign War on Drugs.
