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Think it's harmless? Now nine in ten teens at drug clinics are being treated for marijuana use
The Daily Mail (United Kingdom) ^ | April 22, 2018 | STEPHEN ADAMS and MARTIN BECKFORD

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society
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To: Fungi

“Nonsense. Every one I know who smokes it heavily cannot or refuses to stop.”

They can stop. They may not want to, but you know some feeble minded morons.


61 posted on 04/22/2018 11:30:21 AM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: TexasGator

“Anything and everything can be addictive.”

That’s true. Water can be an obsession. But pot, as a chemical, isn’t in itself.


62 posted on 04/22/2018 11:31:07 AM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: Original Lurker

Absolutely agree with you. It brings out what is there lurking already. It’s not a cause, but could be a contributor? Don’t know if it would come out anyway.


63 posted on 04/22/2018 11:31:20 AM PDT by zek157
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To: mewzilla

“It doesn’t have to be addictive to do long term damage to the brain of an adolescent user.”

We don’t know that. We have yet to perform a scientific study that shows pot caused it or that the person was stupid before.


64 posted on 04/22/2018 11:31:49 AM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: familyop

A rather spurious statistic.

Of the teens whose drug use is bad enough that they are sent to the drug clinic, 9/10 use marijuana too.


65 posted on 04/22/2018 11:32:14 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: familyop
Of course Dustbin Turd-owe is legalising it effective July 1, 2018, Canaduh Day (or, as it should still be known, Dominion Day.


Our Dear Lead-her.

66 posted on 04/22/2018 11:32:26 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Fungi

Living proof that clams is half nonsense. Refusing to quit, I will agree with. It is not addictive. You can smoke heavily for years and drop it if you want to. Want is the key.


67 posted on 04/22/2018 11:35:55 AM PDT by zek157
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To: familyop; All
"Now nine in ten teens at drug clinics
are being treated for marijuana use...."


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68 posted on 04/22/2018 11:36:22 AM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Just because a person thinks it should be legal doesn’t mean they advocate its use.


69 posted on 04/22/2018 11:36:55 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: CodeToad

“. But pot, as a chemical, isn’t in itself.”

If you prefer to call it a chemical use disorder, ok by me.


70 posted on 04/22/2018 11:37:21 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: CodeToad
They can stop. They may not want to, but you know some feeble minded morons.

Why should they stop if it's so harmless?

71 posted on 04/22/2018 11:38:51 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: Telepathic Intruder
"Unlike many things, “experience” in drug use makes one less of an expert."

Like experience in home security gained from using an AK-47 and pit bulls instead of an AR-15, self-defense insurance, security cameras and a lapdog? ;-)


72 posted on 04/22/2018 11:39:30 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: CodeToad
"Pot isn’t addictive."

It is addictive, as is tobacco, Communism and alcohol, but why should that matter? Banning emotional analgesics is another social experiment that, eventually, will be seen to have failed.

Let the Proles entertain themselves. You can't fix stupid.

73 posted on 04/22/2018 11:40:34 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Mariner

“...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.”

Admittedly I am an old guy, in the 80’s, I have lived all over the country, have been constantly employed up into my eighties, married to one woman for 50+ years, am a non-smoker but enjoy may beer, scotch and bourbon. I have been around! And, I don’t believe those statistics at all. I have known hundreds of people from all avenues of life and I can count on my hands the number of people I even suspicioned were smoking marijuana and fewer yet those on harder drugs. I have known the parents of a few, maybe half dozen who have died from opiods in the past 10 years - all well educated, from nice families, in their mid- 20’s to 30’s. -— just saying.


74 posted on 04/22/2018 11:41:24 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

That’s enough to scare anyone off pot.


75 posted on 04/22/2018 11:41:47 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
"Of course Dustbin Turd-owe is legalising it effective July 1, 2018, Canaduh Day (or, as it should still be known, Dominion Day."

Hmmm...now, who could that be? Oh! I know! Justin Castro!
;-)


76 posted on 04/22/2018 11:45:10 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Magic Fingers

No. The solution is to embed virtue (habits) into your children. Smoking MJ is not virtuous, it destroys agency and impedes the part of brain which makes you rational, which is always really evil and reduces you to dog, where base emotions control your actions.

Your emotions need to be controlled by a rational brain and any drug that destroys your ability to think for yourself and be virtuous is evil and reduces you to cattle (to be herded and controlled by the State).

The promotion of evil to little children is the problem of allowing evil behaviors to be legal. Promotion of vice in Just Laws will destroy civilizations (as Cicero noted) since vice destroys virtue always.

Sodomy is now promoted to little children 24/7 because of “Just Laws” which should be “null and void” in a true “justice” (virtue) system. Starting before kindergarten, now, most children are assaulted with homosexual images, normalizing it, the unnatural, vile behavior which strips humans of meaning and dignity and uses others as a means to an end (which is always evil).

Vice promotion destroys cultures and corrupts the ability of children to be wise—discern between good and evil, and they will believe any irrational cr*- which we see now with little boys “thinking” they are girls. They are totally corrupted, stripped of reason and logic and reduced to non-thinking animal to be a total slave of the state.

Children embed what they see and that is why Montesquieu and our “Justice System” is predicated on ONLY allowing VIRTUE PROMOTION in the culture, since vice destroys cultures and creates slavery.

All Just Laws can only promote “public virtue”—Montesquieu. “Unjust Law (ones promoting evil actions) are null and void”. But that does not mean everything evil has to be written in some “law”. That is why Virtue is essential in people if there is to be freedom. Without virtue in people, there can be no freedom—only chaos-—bunch of drugged-up, lazy people who will have to be controlled by the State. Vice collapses cultures always and why freedom is only possible with virtuous people (people who don’t want to be drugged and slaves). All Founders stated the same and Justice Marshall stated evil “laws” are antithetical to the Constitution and are “null and void”.

Virtue is essential for freedom. As Socrates stated, vice creates slaves-—vice destroys agency (virtue) in people.


77 posted on 04/22/2018 11:57:30 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: familyop

I’m sorry, but marijuana is not an addictive substance. This article is pointless, and so is their “treatment”. Outside of enriching those people doing the “treating”, that is.


78 posted on 04/22/2018 12:02:13 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: familyop

More people will die today because of water than pot.


79 posted on 04/22/2018 12:02:36 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: familyop

That isn’t what an addiction is. ;-D


80 posted on 04/22/2018 12:03:04 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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