Posted on 04/12/2021 10:03:30 AM PDT by BeauBo
“These people really do not care what happens to the children, do they?”and
Young people have been reporting since well before any state had legalized that they could get marijuana almost as easily as cigarettes or beer, although the latter two are much more widespread among adults. This evidence indicates that the best way of keeping a drug away from young people is to legalize it for adults - which gives its sellers an economic incentive to confine their sales to adults, namely the risk of losing their legal adult market.
Oh greeat! Now the drunk drivers will be stoned, too!!
Yes, because nobody uses marijuana before it’s legalized.
Come on how many people don’t get stoned 2 and there lost.
Is there any evidence that less use by kids where it’s legal? At all? I’ve only seen the opposite. And it makes sense, anything authorized by the gov is going to be more common by definition. It’s like homo marriage and so on. Once it gets hold, then legalized, it only gets worse.
If you have any evidence that legalization has lowered demand or use in any age group like you NORML types claimed, I’d love to see it.
If you have any evidence that legalization has lowered demand or use in any age group like you NORML types claimed, I’d love to see it.
I've already supplied more evidence than you ... howzabout you take a turn?
That’s not what I asked for. Not conjecture about what might happen, but what actually has happened. I doubt you’ll like the results if you look at what a failure legalization has been compared to the pie in the sky leftist propaganda.
“Federal and state surveys and the New England Journal of Medicine report that teen marijuana use dropped a little in Colorado.” - https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3718542/posts
This is already getting old but: Results suggest that legalization of recreational marijuana did not increase marijuana use for youth who did not use marijuana but did increase use in youth who were already using.
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-51515-001
So you’ve been debunked, you can stop now.
Hah, linking to that moron libertarian Stossel. I gave you a real study which debunks you, and it’s from 2017. INCREASE USE among children (that are already addicted). An increase is still an increase, so your liberal talking points are dead.
“Results suggest that legalization of recreational marijuana did not increase marijuana use for youth who did not use marijuana”
Contrary to your prediction. Better put some ice on that.
My prediction was that it didn’t stop it, only increased it. I posted facts saying that. I knew you wouldn’t believe it, not like you’d care anyway. Like a pedophile potheads can only reproduce with grooming the young.
“I gave you a real study”
Stossel linked to real studies.
“which debunks you”
Wrong - see my previous post.
He only links to a closed source. Mine is more recent and actually says what the study contains. Sorry, you lose bigtime.
Read later. Sounds like Santa Fe.
“only increased it”
Your link indicates that the percentage of youths using did not increase.
An NEJM account is free. “the proportion reporting having used marijuana in the previous 30 days dropped from 22% to 20% over the same period, and the proportion reporting ever having used marijuana decreased from 39% to 37%.”
They’ll screw it up. It’s New Mexico.
The newer the study, the worse it’s looking. I figure it would be a lagging indicator. I don’t particularly like ‘self reporting’ when it comes to sex or drugs though, but it might be the best there is. It certainly hasn’t slowed down any, and the trend is bad.
https://www.nursingcenter.com/journalarticle?Article_ID=4346123&Journal_ID=54030&Issue_ID=4346085
The 2016 Washington State Healthy Youth Survey, which included more than 230,000 students from all counties, reported that despite legalization of marijuana, usage among teens has remained steady. Six percent of eighth graders, 17% of 10th graders, and 26% of 12th graders stated they had used marijuana in the past 30 days, similar to what was reported in the 2014 youth survey. Overall, the use of marijuana among Washington teens has remained stable over the past 10 years.
Evidence exists, however, that fewer teenagers think of marijuana as a risky drug. The Monitoring the Future survey found that 31.1% of 12th graders perceived marijuana as harmful in 2016 compared with 58.3% in 2000.
“Conflicting data and study methods make it hard to reach a firm conclusion.”
We can’t say that youth use hasn’t declined, and we can’t say it has.
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