Are Teens Getting more Stupid? They are literally going to Pot.Concerning Trends in Teen Marijuana Use According to the New PATS Data (2008-2011)
- Past-month use is up 42 percent (up from 19 percent in 2008 to 27 percent in 2011, which translates to about 4 million teens).
- Past-year use is up 26 percent (up from 31 percent in 2008 to 39 percent in 2011, which translates to about 6 million teens).
- Lifetime use is up 21 percent (up from 39 percent in 2008 to 47 percent in 2011, which translates to nearly 8 million teens).
Read the whole story at drugfree.org.
The State of Oregon has legalized medical marijuana and currently has nearly 40,000 people enrolled in its voter-approved medical-marijuana program. They say that law enforcement must take action because the system violates federal law and is "putting marijuana in the hands of more and more healthy kids." Source: Seattle's Daily Weekly
Tell that to Rep. Jeff Clemens.
1. Judge Jim Gray on The Six Groups Who Benefit From Drug Prohibition
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6t1EM4Onao
(Judge Jim Gray is the author of Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs)
2. Marijuana Cuts Tumor Growth by 50%
http://preventdisease.com/news/10/120310_marijuana_cuts_tumor_growth.shtml
"The active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University who tested the chemical in both lab and mouse studies."
3. Hemp for Victory (1943 US Dept. of Agriculture)
http://www.classiccinemaonline.com/?option=com_content&view=article&id=391:hemp-for-victory-1943&catid=94:documentary&Itemid=766
Government Permits/Encourages growing weed.
Minister of Health has 1/2 the adult and child users than the US. Kids are safer w/it legalized.
Ask LEAP.cc
Law
Enforcement
Against
Prohibition
"Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is an international organization of criminal justice professionals who bear personal witness to the wasteful futility and harms of our current drug policies. Our experience on the front lines of the “war on drugs” has led us to call for a repeal of prohibition and its replacement with a tight system of legalized regulation, which will effectively cripple the violent cartels and street dealers who control the current illegal market."
Yeah, thanks for the other side of the argument. I worry about pot heads eventually running this country. It's bad enough when you have liars.
ReplyDeleteYou left out this part from the Seattle article:
ReplyDeleteYou left out this part of the Seattle article;
What's more, according to a 2008 study by the Marijuana Policy Project, the declines in teenage marijuana use are even more pronounced in states that allow medical pot. "No state with a medical marijuana law has experienced an increase in youth marijuana use since their law's enactment," the research found. "In fact, all states have reported overall decreases--exceeding 50 percent in some age groups--strongly suggesting that enactment of state medical marijuana laws does not increase teen marijuana use."
In Oregon specifically, the pot-smoking trends "are slightly less favorable than nationwide trends, although teen use is still down overall." The study, which relied on data provided by the Oregon Department of Health, found that among more than 20,000 eighth and 11th graders, pot use declined across the board--and up to 33 percent in some demographics--between 1998 and 2007.
Hey Lynn, I'm more worried about our country being run by a bunch of alcoholics and prescription drug addicts ... Oh wait, those are legal, so it's ok to kill tens of thousands of people.
ReplyDeleteHey Weetha, how many deaths were there over the last decade from marijuana?
Oh ya, one more thing. Our Great Nation was founded by pot heads. The Constitution is written on hemp paper and the framers planned the revolution over a few tokes.
So you got any legitimate reasons not to LEGALIZE IT????