Smoking Pot leads to Micro$oft Abuse!
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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Should we enact a new level of law enforcement to prevent such behavior?
The whole debate boils down to if the people are responsible for a limited government, or should the government be responsible for everyones actions?
Pot use is just as stupid as pouring drain cleaner in ones nostrils. I don't give a damn if someone chooses to, when the alternative is a police state. Those who make their living working for the police state will disagree, but what the hell, it's a heck of a gravy train.
Smoking Pot leads to Micro$oft Abuse!
He He He...good one!
It is a gateway to tobacco use. No doubt about that.
We seem unwilling to prevent people's homes from burning down or vanishing underneath a sea of excrement........but we're unbelievably great at chasing after teenagers who carry a joint in their pocket......are we totally insane, or what?
It's definitely a gateway to junk-food addiction and abuse
LONG HAIRED DUDE:"Dude, how come none of our amigos can't ever get to the protest on time? This is sooooo Bogus!"
Huh? Please explain this statement...
Someone, somewhere might be getting high right now!
Our founding fathers, were they here today, would demand that we use every resource available to keep that from happening. Even lies and tyranny.
I think if the founding fathers were here today, they would see the type of civilization we live in and the density of the population and would tell you to grow up.
You are not living in the open ranges of the 1700's anymore and everything you do can also fall upon your near by neighbors or the state and national treasury.
Our founding fathers were not gods and life has gone on in America since those wonderful men have passed. They gave us a wonderful foundation on which we are still building a great country (recreational drug use not inculded).
Your ridiculous with your money argument regarding illegal drugs as you would in not wanting to spend money in murder, which takes investigations, court time, jail and can often be tied to drugs as well.
Perhaps you should think about giving up the adoration of recreational drug use or pro-recreational drug use politics and take up fishing.
They must've been smoking when they wrote this.
It's more of an "Open-Door" Policy, in practice.
Personal liberty has been replaced by a collective liberty to act out society's whims in the minds of those who fetishize the State.
The WOD is simply a leading aspect of enforcing what is essentially "Socialism with American characteristics", to paraphrase Mao.
Ironically enough, the overwhelming majority of name-calling, ad hominem insults and juvenile antics come from the "anti-drug" crowd.
This thread is evidence enough of that.
But for those who are skeptical, there are thousands of other threads just like it, and all of them illustrate the truth of this debate.
And the truth is that those who resort to name-calling and personal attacks do so because they are afraid.
What do they fear?
The truth.
The video they have in the extras section of the "Dazed and Confused" DVD is funny as hell too.
Why would we, who are supposed to be living in a Republic, want to 'fuel' democracy?
It is NOT a conservative behavior IMO to be pushing recreational drug use
Having never used what is now considered illegal drugs, I don't want to push them on a soul. And yet, I continually find it humorous that 'conservatives' would advocate a national program of any sort that was not originally envisioned by the Framers. Did they not have access to marijuana? And somehow they either abstained or used accordingly. Either way there was no national program wasting government money on something like the WOSD. It is a more conservative value to advocate as little as government as possible. However, I understand partisans are more concerned with their pet projects (WOSD, NASA, Social Security, etc.) than with the values of conservatism.
We can do very well without the drugs and I think Bennetts comment about crime
You could do without the crime and you think without Bennett's statement? That statement just further shows that Bill Bennett is an absolute idiot. While I would not desire any government action, federal or state, for his idiotic statements I would hope the market reaction would force the stations employing him to fire him ASAP
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