THE BLUNT TRUTH ABOUT MARIJUANA: Five Facts Parents Must Know

Black Entertainment EURweb ^ | September 30, 2005 | National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

[A CA Guy]

Every day 4,700 kids try marijuana for the first time. In fact, marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug among America's youth. Unfortunately, a lot of American teens, and their parents, continue to see marijuana as harmless.

QUESTION 1: Ecstasy is more popular than marijuana among kids today. True or False?

False. Far more youth use marijuana than any other drug. Among kids who use drugs, approximately 60 percent use marijuana only.

QUESTION 2: Marijuana is not addictive. True or False?

False. Research shows that marijuana is addictive. In fact, more teens enter treatment with a primary diagnosis of marijuana dependency than for all other illegal drugs combined.

QUESTION 3: Smoking one marijuana joint is as harmful as smoking five cigarettes. True or False?

True. In fact, smoking four joints is like smoking an entire pack.

QUESTION 4: Smoking weed only makes people feel mellow. True or False?

False. Marijuana can cause paranoia, panic attacks, anxiety and depression. Heavy marijuana use has even been linked with increased aggression, rebelliousness and violent behavior.

QUESTION 5: There's not much parents can do to stop their kids from trying marijuana. True or False?

False. Research suggests that parents are the most powerful influence on their children when it comes to drugs. In fact, kids who learn about the risks of marijuana from their parents are 36 percent less likely to use it.

[moog]

Drugs affect more than one person.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Oh, the drug threads are priceless. Jim Rob should put them in book form and sell them.

Sometimes I miss the Old Days with Mr. Le Roy, robertpaulsen, Dane, roscoe, et al. Some classic food fights, those.

[TChris]

Forgive me for trying to tie the point of the thread in with your personal attack on another poster.

Personal attack? How have I personally attacked the poster? I have simply illustrated that the statement he posted was silly. I have posted equally silly things before, I'm sure.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Whatever. Use better more relevent examples next time. Those sucked.

[dakine]

Yep, you win. Anecdotal evidence trumps all reason....

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Someone please explain to the newbie what WOD and a WOT are?

War on Drugs
War on Terror

[brownsfan]

"You could have fooled the hell out of me
and you STILL have not answered the question
just more SYCO babble"

Since I see you are getting hammered on your lack of logic, and your inablity to spell doesn't seem to bother you, I will assume that you are as close minded about most things. You don't care about my answer, you just want to redirect. At this point, posting to you becomes non productive. Have a good day.

(Go call the cops on some kids jaywalking or some other such activity that will make you feel useful).

[TChris]

Everything you just stated directly causes harm to someone else against thier will.smoking a joint in your house does nothing to anyone else and the feds outlawing something that does not harm anyone is wrong and unconstitutional

...and you'll be quoting the pertinent article of the Constitution that forbids these laws, right? I look forward to reading that.

[moog]

And Freewill vs Predestined.

Freewilly wasn't predestined??? I thought he was.

[moog]

And did you know that masturbation makes you go blind?


Not if you close your eyes first.

There's a thousand things you could say on that one.

[ECM]

Actually, I think the point is you don't llke the fact that it might actually be true--could that possibly be it?

Naaaaaah, no chance of that, right?

[radioman]

The bodies from schizophrenia??? Do you know what schizophrenia is?

I certainly do and I have refuted that old propaganda myth right here on FR more than once. It's 100 percent drug war propaganda and it's decades old.
Lets use the NEW! and IMPROVED! Official Drug War Propaganda.
According to the DEA website, "Meth is Death":
"1 in 7 high school students will try meth";
"99 percent of first-time meth users are hooked after just the first try";
"only 5 percent of meth addicts are able to kick it and stay away";
"the life expectancy of a habitual meth user is only 5 years."

Do the math.
13.4 percent of Americans die as a result of methamphetamine abuse within five years of graduating from high school.
According to the Census Bureau, there are more than 20 million 15-to-19-year-olds in the U.S., so we are talking about hundreds of thousands of deaths a year, and that's not even counting people who start using meth after high school
Hundreds of thousands of teen deaths every year from meth!
Where are the bodies?
.

[brownsfan]

"Drugs affect more than one person."

Understood. And it's sad, but so do lots of other human activities. If my son doesn't go to college, it affects me, and his mother, and his future wife, and his potential children. So, should we make it illegal for my son not to go to college?

[moog]

MJ is no more addictive than your favorite TV show or your favorite food.

He was when he was playing basketball. SHE was on Gilligan's island though.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

and you'll be quoting the pertinent article of the Constitution that forbids these laws, right?

Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Conservatives typically don't endorse New Deal-era interpretations of the Commerce Clause . . .

[dixiechick2000]

Your Honor please instruct the witness to answer
the question.

It was a "yes" or "no" question.
You are making things too hard.

[moog]

Marijuana causes homosexuality, communism and obesity.

One out of three isn't bad for me.