Developing Brains: Alcohol Worse than Marijuana

PhysOrg.com ^ | March 26th, 2009 | Miranda Marquit

[neverdem]

The Influence of Substance Use on Adolescent Brain Development

Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse

This article is from 2007 by David Nutt. Scroll down about three quarters of the way. You'll find alcohol in 5th, tobacco in 9th and marijuana in 11th place.

[Westlander]

[SMtF]

Your second link to the Yahoo Cache didn't seem to work. If you have any more like it, I'd love to add them to my marijuana facts website (I use lots of resources and what not).

[Paleo Conservative]

[iowamark]

The article falsely implies that alcohol is legal for teens in the US.

[conservative cat]

The article falsely implies that alcohol is legal for teens in the US.

It's not legal, but when did that stop teenagers?

[philman_36]

The article falsely implies that alcohol is legal for teens in the US.
The very first sentence says...
...a legal substance (though not legal for teens in the U.S.)...
Perhaps you'll recant.

[philman_36]

Pardon me...The very first second sentence says...

[neverdem]

It just worked for me.

[Jeff Chandler]

The posts on this thread so far seem like they were posted by Freepers who are stoned.

[SMtF]

Ah, nevermind. It appears the cache doesn’t work, but the PDF does.

Thanks.

[iowamark]

A fair point. I was reading the last sentence when I commented.

"Supporters of fewer restrictions on marijuana will undoubtedly point to scientific studies that show we already legalize less dangerous substances."

[smokingfrog]

I’m not buying it.

[familyop]

Seeing that relativistic BS makes me more angry. It’s time to take some action.

[Does so]

There is NO smoke that is good for lungs.

OTOH, Socialized Medicine will make it all better.

:-\

[count-your-change]

” In the Lancet, David Nutt at Bristol University, along with his colleagues, asked psychologists and scientifically or medically trained police to rank different substances according to how harmful they are”

Isn't this the same David Nutt that said taking the drug Ecstasy was about as risky as riding a horse?
Sounds like an unbiased source of information and judgment
about marijuana, doesn't it?

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Probably best to avoid all of it until you are about 25 and your brain has quit developing.

Don't take anything that screws with your hormones until then either.

As a general rule that, along with proper nutrition and brain stimulation should produce a brain that is firing on all cylinders.

[tacticalogic]

Sounds like an unbiased source of information and judgment about marijuana, doesn't it?

What exactly does "an unbiased source of information and judgement about marijuana" sound like?

[I Buried My Guns]

The report is crafted to disabuse any notion that since we now have a black president, our discrimination woes are “relics of the past.” The proof: blacks are “twice as likely as whites to be unemployed, three times more likely to live in poverty and more than six times as likely to be incarcerated.”