Posted on 04/22/2018 10:31:32 AM PDT by familyop
Cannabis is responsible for 91 per cent of cases where teenagers end up being treated for drug addiction, shocking new figures reveal...The findings also back up academic research, revealed in The Mail on Sunday over the past three years, that skunk is having a serious detrimental impact on the mental health of the young. At least two studies have shown repeated use triples the risk of psychosis, with sufferers repeatedly experiencing delusional thoughts. Some victims end up taking their own lives.
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Opioids, even. Gotta get up and do something here. :-)
Probably because at least 91 per cent of U.K. teenage illicit drug use is cannabis. In the U.S., cannabis accounted for 82% of past-month illicit drug use by 12-to-17-year-olds, but only 72% of substance use disorders.
"Add"? Marijuana is here and has been for a few decades. The primary effect of widespread legalization will be to take profits out of cartel hands - and redirect them to legal businessmen who will card minors as illegal dealers never do.
I was speaking in 1960s-ish
But now that you mentioned it . . No, the primary effect will be Fng up another generation of kids under the guise of “legalization” and “it’s no more harmful than alcohol”
Interesting isn’t it, how young people are the victims of childish adults and their careless selfishness and BS.
See drugs and HIV/AIDS for examples
Legalization will turn the market over to those with moral inclination and economic incentive to card minors; kids have reported for many years (well before any state legalized) that they could get illegal-for-all pot more easily than legal-only-for-adults beer or cigarettes.
“As we moved to legalize recreational drug use, I’ve noticed that nobody wants to talk about whether marijuana is harmful in any way, or whether it is a gateway drug.
It seems as if the debate has shifted, and we are told that since alcohol is legal and cigarettes are legal, then .
marijuana also should be legal.”
That’s how all immoral behavior and illegal activity gets normalized....by increments. We will continue on this downward spiral, guaranteed.
It seems as if the debate has shifted, and we are told that since alcohol is legal and cigarettes are legal, then marijuana also should be legal.
No shift - when one says marijuana should be illegal because it's harmful, one opens the door wide to the observation that alcohol and tobacco are also harmful.
Altering one's mental state with marijuana is no more immoral than doing so with alcohol.
HA HA
OK.
I’m sure it makes sense to you.
“Pot isn’t addictive.”
Yeah, Right, people just use it for decades.....
I notice you have no rebuttals on your well-thought out debate. Bravo.
Did I say I’ve never done or experienced it? Where did you get that idea? I personally know it’s addicting, and everyone I know that’s used it has at least tried or moved on to harder drugs as a result. And I know about the psychological effects, which I also admit don’t effect everyone. But those that it doesn’t effect think they can judge how it effects everyone else based on their own experience, which is like saying the earth is flat because they can’t personally see the curvature.
Lifetime use of marijuana is 44% but past month use of illicit drugs other than marijuana is only 3.3% - pretty narrow "gateway". (http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-DetTabsPDFWHTML2013/Web/HTML/NSDUH-DetTabsSect1peTabs1to46-2013.htm#tab1.1b)
Pot isn’t addictive in the mood altering drugs category. Alcohol, cocaine,heroin and meth are your abused and dependency drugs. Pot....not so much. Pot smokers aren’t likely to knock off a 711 to fund their habit.
What is your doctorate?
Your train of thought is spot on. I don’t understand how making recreational pot legal is helpful in any way.
“Pot smokers aren’t likely to knock off a 711 to fund their habit.”
Neither are alcoholics or people addicted to nicotine.
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Who in their right mind believes alcohol is harmless?
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