Posted on 09/30/2005 11:33:57 AM PDT by 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.
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That's nice poetry.
I have never advocated it. And unlike you, I have never used it.
13.4 percent of Americans die as a result of methamphetamine abuse within five years of graduating from high school.
Guess I shouldn't have graduated from high school.
Just about everything in life affects more than one person. What is your point?
You would be dang'd right if it served as a gateway. It doesn't! The lies told by the WoDies leads the kid to disregard true warnings. Your warning about meth is only too true, and in numerous cases has 'hooked' the user in one usage. It is the War on Drugs which has given us the meth scourge.
"Those who are prone to heavy marijuana use are also prone to aggression, rebelliousness and violence. They share a common personality type."
Amazing. The people who smoke marijuana and the people arresting them share the same personality quirks.
Get these fat cops off the dole and make drug dependency a medical problem. Giving the stuff away, if need be, would pull the rug out from under the people who are at the top of the drug-running empires.
And, from testimony in the Iran-Contra hearings, that would appear to be the Bush and Clinton families. Peyronie Bill's bro has already been convicted once of drug-running.
The problem is, no matter how long some people have been "around", they don't know any better than to mess with themselves. However, I stand corrected now that I've learned that the "Freedom" part of Free Republic is, in some people's minds, a way to keep their drugs coming. I thought Free Republic was about something else.
Well, since MJ and every other illegal drug are regularly transported interstate for distribution, it's not much of a stretch at all.
Oh, and 9A doesn't imply that every human activity is a right, only that there are other rights not mentioned by the Constitution. Not excluding isn't the same as including.
Thanks. I've been working on it for months.
Shame on you for pushing recreational drugs. Why are you so attracted to them?
And just where do you find the mention of recreational drugs in the exerpt of Headsonpikes post that you selected (posted in blue above)?
Perhaps you should show examples of ANYONE on this thread who has advocated the consumption of recreational substances, whether presently legal or illegal before making ad hominem attacks that have no basis in fact.
I see . . . you're a Franklin Delano Roosevelt Conservative. Very well played.
Where did you get that number? 13.4% is about 1 out of 6 people. I doubt that many people use it in the first place.
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?
It depends on the college and the person. Yes, maybe we should make it illegal for some people to go there because going to college is indeed a crime and involves stealing money, and all sorts of other crimes committed in the name of going to college. It is an addictive thing. It's just like we should make it illegal for certain teams to play professional sports because they take our money and lose every Sunday (or whenever they play). It would have saved the Seattle Mariners and others years of embarrassment.
I've never ingested marijuana, except second-hand at rock concerts, and don't advocate anyone using it. But I don't favor putting people in jail because they use it. Having said that, I'll bet a much higher proportion of grass users are Dems than are Republicans. Meaning either smoking pot screws up your brains or people who smoke dope are much more likely to have screwed up brains. I guess that should be obvious.
Lets just kill everyone who smokes, drinks, uses drugs, overeats, attends the wrong church, or has any social belief that is not officially sanctioned by the government. </sarcasm>
Hard to have it both ways. Villifing people when they disagree and quoting them when useful. The credibility on that is nil.
Look at it closer. I replied to a post. I guess I could have put the " or italics, but sometimes I think that it's easily distinguished whose post is whose.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
It was God which gave us free will.
Satan, the adversary, attempts to
make us use it adversely to the will of God.
Since God made herb, saw that it was good
and gave it to man then those men that seek
to eradicate it are opposed to the will of God.
GOD MADE HERB
GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD
GOD GAVE IT TO MAN
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.
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