Roos said selling pot in stores rather than on the street would make it more difficult for teenagers to buy.

“It doesn’t mean that kids won’t be able to get it any more than they can get alcohol,” she said. But “I think that smart parents want it regulated. It’s better having it in stores than kids being able to buy it down the alley.”

Users would still have to show good judgment, she said.

“You shouldn’t be doing certain kinds of jobs if you’re taking prescription medication too. If they want to use it in a situation that they shouldn’t, they will. And the fact that it’s illegal doesn’t really stop them.”

Roos said she hasn’t smoked pot for “quite some time,” but would consider using it occasionally if it were legal.

“I think probably people in my age group who enjoyed it in the 70s probably would smoke some possibly. But I don’t know that the whole population is going to take up pot. I kind of doubt it.”

Even though the drug is illegal, “the people who want to find it can,” she said. “It’s just that the price is very high, the quality is uncertain, and we’re paying organized crime. And we should be getting that revenue for the state as we do for alcohol.”