Posted on 04/22/2018 10:31:32 AM PDT by familyop
Cannabis is responsible for 91 per cent of cases where teenagers end up being treated for drug addiction, shocking new figures reveal...The findings also back up academic research, revealed in The Mail on Sunday over the past three years, that skunk is having a serious detrimental impact on the mental health of the young. At least two studies have shown repeated use triples the risk of psychosis, with sufferers repeatedly experiencing delusional thoughts. Some victims end up taking their own lives.
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Think alcohol is harmless? Think again =>
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Fact Sheets - Underage Drinking
Underage Drinking
Alcohol is the most commonly used and abused drug among youth in the United States.1
Excessive drinking is responsible for more than 4,300 deaths among underage youth each year, and cost the U.S. $24 billion in economic costs in 2010.2,3
Although drinking by persons under the age of 21 is illegal, people aged 12 to 20 years drink 11% of all alcohol consumed in the United States.4
More than 90% of this alcohol is consumed in the form of binge drinks.4
On average, underage drinkers consume more drinks per drinking occasion than adult drinkers.5
In 2010, there were approximately 189,000 emergency rooms visits by persons under age 21 for injuries and other conditions linked to alcohol.6
Drinking Levels among Youth
The 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey7 found that among high school students, during the past 30 days
33% drank some amount of alcohol.
18% binge drank.
8% drove after drinking alcohol.
20% rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol.
Other national surveys
In 2015, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that 20% of youth aged 12 to 20 years drink alcohol and 13% reported binge drinking in the past 30 days.8
In 2015, the Monitoring the Future Survey reported that 10% of 8th graders and 35% of 12th graders drank during the past 30 days, and 5% of 8th graders and 17% of 12th graders binge drank during the past 2 weeks.9
Consequences of Underage Drinking
Youth who drink alcohol are more likely to experience:
School problems, such as higher absence and poor or failing grades.
Social problems, such as fighting and lack of participation in youth activities.
Legal problems, such as arrest for driving or physically hurting someone while drunk.
Physical problems, such as hangovers or illnesses.
Unwanted, unplanned, and unprotected sexual activity.
Disruption of normal growth and sexual development.
Physical and sexual assault.
Higher risk for suicide and homicide.
Alcohol-related car crashes and other unintentional injuries, such as burns, falls, and drowning.
Memory problems.
Abuse of other drugs.
Changes in brain development that may have life-long effects.
Death from alcohol poisoning.
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/underage-drinking.htm
The pot that kids (and everyone else) are smoking today is not their parent's pot. The level of THC – the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis - is typically three times stronger today than in the old Cheech and Chong days. That is not simply mind-altering, it's brain damaging.
Not a single twin study on animals or humans has shown any damage or any changes from even the highest concentrations of cannabis.
There are studies that show correlation to mental illness and other negative effects BUT you can show correlations to countless things. For example, tobacco users are 300-400% more likely to be schizophrenics. It does NOT mean tobacco in any way caused their mental illness. These studies only show that people with mental illness are more likely to abuse tobacco and cannabis.
The mentally ill ware simply more likely to be addicts and prone to self medication. Especially when society has no cure for their illness
“Pot isn’t addictive.”
Anything and everything can be addictive.
There is a problem with the debate. THC is only one of the cannabinoids of the 111 currently known in marijuana.
Due to the drug being set as schedule 1 and not schedule 2 or 3 we are prevented from learning more about the other 110 cannabinoids.
I do not nor have I smoked marijuana. However, I have witnessed first hand the positive impact on those suffering from cancer and other diseases due to states allowing treatments with medical marijuana.
I do not advocate for the total removal of marijuana from the CSA scheduling. I do believe that we need to reschedule so that it can be studied in greater detail.
As for recreational usage. The day they come up with a standardized product and test which can determine the impact and impairment on an individual it should only be allowed for medical purposes. This would allow for accurate DUI charges and other criminal charges for endangering others.
At that time would I allow the general sale of the product in similar fashion as alcohol.
Do we want a society where everything that is not proven harmless is prohibited by law?
I used to work drug rehab back in the 1980s. From what I remember pot was probably the easiest drug to get for teens. I don’t know if the the pot is more or less stronger today then back when I worked in the field. I just remember hearing the same complaints.
I would be more worried about gas and glue sniffing which I is far more available and dangerous.
I wish I had never smoked it; it screwed up my path of life.
The legalities are strange, but I believe that society deserves to know who uses it and who does not, especially employers. If you want to smoke it, fine, but you must be licensed for it and it’s a fair question for an employer to ask any applicant.
Marijuana slowly (and I think permanently) wipes out that part of the prefrontal cortex that says don’t do stupid or bad stuff. Especially for those under 26 years old while it is still developing.
We are growing some more evil seeds. It was bad enough that we opened the doors on the looney bins and they were allowed to breed and become democrats.
Nonsense. Every one I know who smokes it heavily cannot or refuses to stop.
Give them a shoot up zone where they all can do their thing. Guards at the gate. Everyone entering surrenders all their money so as not to attract drug dealers making a sale. It happened in Switzerland. Had to close it down because drug dealers from all over Europe congregated. Freedom. Just don’t make me walk around them to take care of my business.
“Anything and everything can be addictive.”
The obvious solution is to make anything and everything illegal.
“10’s of millions have smoked pot and not ended up there. Perhaps 100’s of millions.”
And that’s just in the last 10 years. And since the onset of the super weeds where THC is in the 20-25% range.
Over HALF of all adults in the US have smoked it.
10-12% of all adults in the US are current, regular users.
According to CDC.
No. Of course not. Water isn't wet, either.
True. If they knew they could get it quickly at any grocery store or Qwik-E mart, they’d be far less anxious.
For many people, daily smoking of MJ will make you both paranoid and lazy. Whatever strong emotion you’re feeling before ingesting marijuana that feeling will probably be magnified X number of times after the smoking is done.
Different people have different reactions.
Well, the answer is here! They can get K2 in convenience stores in some places.
In fact it is addictive. The only ones who say it isn’t are those who use it all the time. It also leads to heavier drug use in many cases.
“Cannot” and “refuses to” aren’t really the same thing. Covers all bases for your faux argument, though.
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