Kids are Smarter than Adults

There is hope for this crummy world after all. In Durango High School a mock election had the students talking about some recent ballot initiatives, including amendment 44, the initiative to decriminilize possession of less than an ounce of pot.

No preliminary results were available, but students overwhelmingly said they favored legalizing marijuana and opposed banning gay marriage.

Freshman Trey Heath, 14, said he supported marijuana legalization.

"I don't believe in smoking marijuana, but if they ban it, people are just going to want to do it more," Heath said.

"What you can't have, you want to have," said another freshman, Franchesca Framer, 15. Furthermore, she said, "everyone does it anyway."

Students said people should be able to marry whomever they want.

"What if a man loves someone who's another man and a woman loves someone who's another woman?" said sophomore Alicia Hansen, 15. "I think it's fine."

Out of the mouths of babes...