" Longitudinal research on marijuana use among young people below college age indicates those who used marijuana have lower achievement than the non-users, more acceptances of deviant behavior, more delinquent behavior and aggression, greater rebelliousness, poorer relationships with parents, and more associations with delinquent and drug-using friends. Research also shows more anger and more regressive behavior in toddlers whose parents use marijuana than among the toddlers of non-using parents (Michael Farrell, M.D., British Medical Journal) "
" A gateway drug is a drug that is considered to lead the user to experiment with harder more addictive drugs. "There is a fairly long history of research showing that early cannabis (marijuana) use is associated with increased risks for later use of so-called 'hard drugs,' but that research is based on the fact that most heroin and cocaine users report first having used cannabis," says lead author Michael T. Lynskey, Ph.D., a visiting assistant professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and senior research fellow at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane, Australia (Lynskey). "
So I guess the 41% of Americans who support legalization are unprincipled, anti-family, irresponsible, and indecent?
here's a bit of what legalization will do:
No, that's what USE may do (but note that all they have are correlations). What legalization will do is stop putting inflated profits in criminal hands ... and show respect for individual liberty.
It doesn't need to pass a nationwide ballot. We as the people do not create or repeal federal laws. All the feds need to do is reclassify marijuana as a schedule IV drug and let the states decide whether or not to decriminalize its use.
Heh.
I suppose it doesn't matter to you, but those things you present as facts are simply wrong.