THE BLUNT TRUTH ABOUT MARIJUANA: Five Facts Parents Must Know

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.

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?

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.

Prohibition was and still is a great idea, isn't it? No one needs alcohol. Alcohol kills more people each year than almost anything. Alcohol breaks up the family and leads to murder, rape and bad behavior. Alcohol is a poison and it is in the best interests of our citizens to ban the possession, sale and use of all poisons. We should ban Budweiser, Ketel One and Mogan David, shouldn't we?

I can tell that you either haven't thought out the ramifications of your ideas, or you just like being able to tell others what to do. After all it is obvious that you know what is best for me, my neighbors and everyone else for that matter, don't you?

There are few thing more dispicable than a political or social movement that advocates using the police power of government, especially the federal government, to force their version of correct behavior on others.

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What are the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide?

Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.

Dihydrogen Monoxide Facts

Dihydrogen monoxide:

is also known as hydric acid, and is the major component of acid rain.
contributes to the Greenhouse Effect.
may cause severe burns.
contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.

Dihydrogen Monoxide Alerts

Contamination is reaching epidemic proportions!

Quantities of dihydrogen monoxide have been found in almost every stream, lake, and reservoir in America today. But the pollution is global, and the contaminant has even been found in Antarctic ice. In the midwest alone DHMO has caused millions of dollars of property damage.

Dihydrogen Monoxide Uses

Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:

as an industrial solvent and coolant.
in nuclear power plants.
in the production of styrofoam.
as a fire retardant.
in many forms of cruel animal research.
in the distribution of pesticides. Even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
as an additive in certain junk-foods and other food products.

Stop the horror - Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide

Companies dump waste DHMO into rivers and the ocean, and nothing can be done to stop them because this practice is still legal. The impact on wildlife is extreme, and we cannot afford to ignore it any longer!

THE HORROR MUST BE STOPPED!

The American government has refused to ban the production, distribution, or use of this damaging chemical due to its importance to the economic health of this nation. In fact, the navy and other military organizations are conducting experiments with DHMO, and designing multi-billion dollar devices to control and utilize it during warfare situations. Hundreds of military research facilities receive tons of it through a highly sophisticated underground distribution network. Many store large quantities for later use.

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Why do you feel the need to defend recreational drug use as a conservative?

I don't typically get involved in these threads but I have some experience with marijuana when I was younger.

Unless I'm mistaken, being a conservative means one wants smaller government along with fiscal resposibility. The US is spending an enormous amount on fighting the war on drugs. Many of our rights are going by the wayside in order for the government to pursue the war on drugs. Much of our money is spent in financing other countries eradication of drug crops. Much of our tax money goes to fund special drug task forces, prosecution and then upon conviction, housing marijuana smokers. I can think of better things to spend our taxes on.

I have never seen a violent potsmoker. I have never seen a potsmoker who was addicted to pot. In all of my 53 years I've seen only one person who smoked pot incessantly when he had access to it. He didn't go through withdrawal, he didn't go out and kill or rob banks or anything similar if he was out of pot.

I started smoking pot once in awhile starting at the age of 16 and quit at 22. I quit because I had gotten married and wanted to start a family. At the time there were scare tactics about pots potential to cause severe birth defects and I bought into that particular brand of hysteria so I quit. Two years later I gave birth to a perfectly healthy baby boy.

One of the biggest mistakes made by government was to put out so much hype about the effects of marijuana. It doesn't rot your brain, it doesn't cause you to lose control of your faculties, its affect is less than drinking to get a good buzz-on.

What pot does do is enhance the taste of food, it relaxes, it temporarily distorts depth perception, it can make people giggle and laugh over things that wouldn't be all that funny if they were straight, it can act as a tranquilizing agent in that while high one is somewhat apathetic about differing things. As soon as the high wears off all of these disappear.

I don't want the hard drugs to be legalized because those drugs can be dangerous not only to the user but to those around them.

How many millions of dollars could we save if everyone convicted of marijuana possession were released from prison. How many dollars could we save if the police were focused on crimes which affect others? I would even go so far as to advocate treatment on a first time offense for the hard drugs. Second time offense would mean strong jail time.

Making pot legal would help to reduce the criminal element associated with the production and sale of pot. We'd still have to contend with the criminal element for the other drugs but we're doing that now and rather unsuccessfully.

BTW, even if pot were made legal today, I wouldn't smoke it. I don't drink either. My personal choice even though I don't begrudge those that do responsibly.

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