All of the rhetoric and misinformation has been steadily debunked year after year, each time an individual tries Cannabis and their brain doesn't fry like and egg then they begin to question ALL of the information pushed upon them by their parents and various authority figures.
This actually encourages them to experiment further, this would lead one to believe that the real gateway drug is lies and deceit.
It's only a matter of time before this ridiculous prohibition is rescinded.
The truth is out there, any that rail along about the dangers of Cannabis can never be taken seriously as their position is unsustainable.
Yeah, DUH, smoke a joint, fall asleep. Maybe if this autistic kid in Connecticut smoked a JOINT every now-and-then, MAYBE he wouldn't have had to "kill mommy" and all the children where she WORKED, instead of "acting-out" and deciding to KILL them, too.
LOOK: it is estimated that the drug cartels in Mexico are losing approximately 2.6 BILLION bucks per year because Colorado and Washington State have legalized pot.
SO, with this "pocket-book" mentality in mind, you've probably taken the VIOLENCE associated with pot trafficking "out-of-the-picture" as well.
Really, isn't it up to the parents to control their kids, not a DEA SWAT team?
By the way, Truman meant he was responsible for executive actions and decisions, not that he was responsible for everything that everyone in America thinks and does, like what we are supposed to watch for TV or have for dinner. I think you are confusing Truman with Hitler.
PS. Why are Conservatives always for free market capitalism when it is ramming stuff down the throats of workers, but fine with anti-free market economics when it comes to things like drug use and gambling?
And don't forget they turn a blind eye to taxpayer-funded handouts and tax cuts to "free market" entities, despite saying how government involvement (and its purported and unspecified regulations) hurts the economy...
Kids entering college or the workforce with a criminal record for possession of a small amount of pot "is robbing many young people of their potential to achieve and excel in school or other aspects of life,".
just face it. government does NOT have 100% control over ANYTHING. they try but they as everyone else, are imperfect humans as well. just as alcohol, it will be legalized. if a person can go home and drink a beer, or go to a public place, have a beer and get behind the wheel and drive home, why cant i go home and smoke a joint in the PRIVACY OF MY OWN HOME?
If this study is confirmed by other research, it provides support not for prohibition, but for legalization, since you can't keep an illegal drug out of the hands of underage teens. Trying to do so only enriches drug dealers. And if teens are as stupid (immature?) as some people think, how will the threat of locking them up stop them from making bad decisions? There is a telling message in the new documentary Breaking the Taboo, delivered by a guard at a maximum security prison: "If you can't control drug use in a maximum security prison, how can you control it in a free society?". The only way to restrict underage use it to legalize marijuana, and even then there will be some abuse. That is where parents have to step up. Are we supposed to criminalize marijuana just because some parents haven't raised their kids right? Are we supposed to get the federal government to make sure they are flossing, and doing their homework?
I forgot to ask 'what do they mean by heavy use of marijuana'? Also, the article seems to imply that legalizing pot sets a bad example for children. What about the same for drinking, smoking cigarettes, and other things we know for sure are bad, esp. for kids. PS. I'm with Bill Maher, who likes to mock such thinking by whining 'what about the children?'. What about the adults? Should I be restricted as an adult, b/c other people can't supervise their children without the help of Big Brother and SWAT teams?
You are probably right ZUZ-Q. I was able to get it when I was young, and I did drink occasionally. But don't we just compound the problem by arresting teens for doing things like this? I'd rather have kids smoke pot now and then instead of spending serious time in jail. How about you? The bottom line that most anti-cannabis people don't get is really just Economics 101. If there is demand, and supply is curtailed, prices will rise high enough to make it profitable for someone to risk legal punishment to provide the desired commodity. In other words, prohibition can't work. Market economics assure this. Government intervention only drives up the price, and generates turf wars and violence. Plus the society loses out on taxes, and incurs enforcement costs (and empire-building by both government and criminal organizations).
Yeah let them drink alcohol thats safer right. If you wanna keep your kids safe!!! See whats in store for the future of WATER AND FOOD you are idiots putting down a natural substance then feeding your kids fast food and vaccines laced with mercury and gmos and chemicals WAKE UP MORON YOU ARE KILLING YOUR KIDS RIGHT NOW.Would you break open a mercury thermometer and stick the contents inside your kids veins? Then why do you let the DR do it? The rest of the world scientist know that mercury is behind autism and aspergers but no one cares!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you are idiots putting down a natural substance --------------
That is very funny. Natural is good? LOL. Gasoline is natural. Why don't you drink it? Tobacco is natural. Arsenic is very natural. Use some common sense. Inhaling smoke of any kind into your lungs gives you black lungs and deprives your brain of oxygen with every puff.
At least nobody cares til some kid with aspergers busts into a skool and shoots a bunch of kids!!!!Then you all panic blame it on the guns instead of the REAL PROBLEM which is corporate entities causing these BRAIN DISORDERS with chemicals in the food and gmos also and as mentioned before the .025 micrograms of mercury injected into pregnant women for flu shots.No thats not bad for the BABY OOH but don't smoke marijuana you might get HAPPY we wouldn't want that.YOU ARE TALKING MONKEYS WITH NO FRAME OF REFERENCE ABOUT MARIJUANA.YOU don't even know whats in your food.LEARN TO READ!!!!!!!!!!
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All of the rhetoric and misinformation has been steadily debunked year after year, each time an individual tries Cannabis and their brain doesn't fry like and egg then they begin to question ALL of the information pushed upon them by their parents and various authority figures.
This actually encourages them to experiment further, this would lead one to believe that the real gateway drug is lies and deceit.
It's only a matter of time before this ridiculous prohibition is rescinded.
The truth is out there, any that rail along about the dangers of Cannabis can never be taken seriously as their position is unsustainable.
LOOK: it is estimated that the drug cartels in Mexico are losing approximately 2.6 BILLION bucks per year because Colorado and Washington State have legalized pot.
SO, with this "pocket-book" mentality in mind, you've probably taken the VIOLENCE associated with pot trafficking "out-of-the-picture" as well.
By the way, Truman meant he was responsible for executive actions and decisions, not that he was responsible for everything that everyone in America thinks and does, like what we are supposed to watch for TV or have for dinner. I think you are confusing Truman with Hitler.
PS. Why are Conservatives always for free market capitalism when it is ramming stuff down the throats of workers, but fine with anti-free market economics when it comes to things like drug use and gambling?
*zing*
And don't forget they turn a blind eye to taxpayer-funded handouts and tax cuts to "free market" entities, despite saying how government involvement (and its purported and unspecified regulations) hurts the economy...
Plenty of experienced middle-aged workers will be happy to do all those STEM jobs that the stoned kiddies don't want to do, right? ;-)
For once, it's as simple as that...
The irony is that weed would be harder to get for minors if it were legalized.
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That is very funny. Natural is good? LOL. Gasoline is natural. Why don't you drink it? Tobacco is natural. Arsenic is very natural. Use some common sense. Inhaling smoke of any kind into your lungs gives you black lungs and deprives your brain of oxygen with every puff.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/teen-pot-use-iq_n_1834392.html