Smoking Pot Is More Popular Than Puffing On Tobacco: Study
A new study that concludes Canadian teens smoke more marijuana than cigarettes doesn't surprise Manitoba addiction officials.
An increasing rate of marijuana smoking among young people is just one finding in a report about substance report released Wednesday. Researchers say the report should serve as a "call to action" to parents.
Those parents should be celebrating! Their kids are making a smart choice to stay away from cigarettes and go for "dope" instead. The only dopes are the ones that wrote this completely one-sided and biased article. I guess the authors don't realize that pot doesn't cause cancer, is less addictive than coffee and is far safer than alcohol or tobacco.
"We're not trying to say to these kids: 'don't use', because that doesn't necessarily work. What we're saying is, understand the risks associated with ( pot ) use, and hopefully that will lead to less use," he says.
This is wrong on so many levels that I hardly know where to begin. The reason pot is so popular has nothing to do with drug education at all. Pot is cool right now because drugs are like fashion - they go in and out of style all the time. Teaching kids the truth about pot is not going to discourage them from smoking it because the truth is that pot isn't very dangerous. It doesn't cause cancer, and everything causes cancer. If you want to discourage kids from smoking pot, we have to make it a lot less cool.
Legalize pot for the medical users and show mainstream pot-smokers as little old ladies in wheelchairs treating their cancer. There is nothing cool about that.
There are far more examples of stupid in the article but pointing them out would take far too long and be far too painful for me. I am going to finish the laundry instead. It's more entertaining.
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