I made it clear how I feel, and the solution is to just say no, kids.
"Legalization blurs message to teens about marijuana" by Tara Parker-Pope | New York Times August 19, 2014
I'm just wondering how kids would feel about a cloudy and blurred message that leads to wars based on lies and that are blared from in$titutions such as the NYT here.
I know, I know, take a hit and chill.
NEW YORK — When the antidrug educator Tim Ryan talks to students, he often asks them what they know about marijuana. “It’s a plant,” is a common response.
But more recently, the answer has changed. Now they reply, “It’s legal in Colorado.”
These are confusing times for middle and high school students, who have been lectured about the perils of substance abuse, particularly marijuana. Now it seems that the adults in their lives have done an about-face.
Proving that adults lie. They lie right to your face.
Recreational marijuana is legal in Colorado and in Washington state, and Massachusetts and other states have approved it for medical use.
The clinics are not open yet, though, and won't be for months.
And many are debating the merits of full-scale legalization.
“They are growing up in a generation where marijuana used to be bad, and maybe now it’s not bad,” said Ryan, a senior prevention specialist with FCD Educational Services, a group that works with students in the classroom. “Their parents are telling them not to do it, but they may be supporting legalization of it at the same time.”
Parents are always to blame. Use this later in life against them, kids.
Antidrug advocates say efforts to legalize marijuana have created new challenges as they work to educate teenagers and their parents about the unique risks that alcohol, marijuana, and other substances pose to the developing teenage brain.
Translation: this makes it harder for them to brainwash kids.
Now go get that set of prescription pharmaceuticals for your ADD or ADHD or PTSD or bipolar whatever.
These educators say their goal is not to vilify marijuana or take a stand on legalization. They say their role is to convince young people and their parents that the use of drugs is not just a moral or legal issue but a significant health issue.
“The health risks are real,” said Steve Pasierb, chief executive of the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. “Every passing year, science unearths more health risks about why any form of substance use is unhealthy for young people.”
Tell government intelligence agencies to stop facilitating the traffic in them then.
Btw, isn't there supposed to be some sort of heroin crisis?
And what about the Israeli Molly and Ecstasy rings?
It's the pot that is the problem because it might actually get the kids to smarten up?
Nearly half of teenagers — 44 percent — have tried marijuana at least once, according to data from the partnership. Regular use is less common. One in four teenagers report using marijuana in the past month, and 7 percent report frequent use — at least 20 times in the past month.
Even in the states where marijuana is legal, it remains, like alcohol, off-limits to anyone younger than 21. But the reality is that once a product becomes legal, it can become easier for underage users to obtain it.
They are already getting it easily enough! Prohibition failed, remember!
Of course, you have to look at the intere$ts behind legal drugs like tobacco and alcohol and then consider that marijuana cultivation can be done by damn near anyone.
That's why there is a push for legal; then only big business can afford to invest and get loans.
It's not being done out of the some sort of elitist altruism, folks, it's being done out of the goodne$$ of their hearts.
This summer, the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids released its annual tracking study, in which young people were asked what stopped them from trying drugs. Getting into trouble with the law and disappointing their parents were cited as the two most common reason young people did not use marijuana. The concern now is legalization will remove an important mental barrier that keeps adolescents from trying the drug at a young age.
You know what? STOP WAVING CHILDREN AT US, you agenda-pu$hing piece of $hit, when their are HUNDREDS of DEAD GAZAN KIDS in GRAVES!
Drug prevention experts say the “Just Say No” approach of the 1980s does not work.
Neither does anything else the hypocritical bastards have come up with, but at least the public and private funds keep poring in -- with even more planned because of Obummercare.
At least money-addicted in$urers and healthcare conglomerates will get phat!
The goal of parents should not be to prevent their kids from ever trying marijuana. Instead, the focus should be on practical reasons to delay use of any mind-altering substance, including alcohol, until they are older.
The reason is that young brains continue to develop until the early 20s, and those who start using alcohol or marijuana in their teens are far more vulnerable to long-term substance-abuse problems, among other difficulties.
Ready for your pills now, kiddo?
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I wonder how the kids feel about having their futures stolen by the Wall Street bankers and greedy money junkies of the political cla$$ that nevertheless wish to lovingly protect you with tons of tyranny.
Oh, right, they voiced their views on that with Occupy Wall Street and got cleared out by those same loving security forces of law enforcement.
What were they, stoned?
(Blog editor's note: they were, according to the Boston Globe. They were all a bunch of stinky, smelly kids. I wonder if they made it, cuz the Globe never followed up.)
NEXT DAY UPDATE: Rejected marijuana firm gaining support
I "forgot" to buy a Globe today. $orry.
