Teenager Smoking pot
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Anonymous
If you have children, I hope you get busted. It is not all right to take/smoke dope when you have children |
Anonymous
Alcohol is far more destructive and insidious than pot. Should we reinstate prohibition? Or arrest parents who attend cocktail parties? |
Anonymous
Alcohol is legal, pot is not. You cannot justify using an illegal substance no matter how made you try. |
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hard you try. |
Anonymous
| OP turning in the dealer or your child's friends could cause trouble for him socially. I think it could make it hard for him to make new friends if he has a reputation for turning people over to the police. |
Anonymous
Here, class, we see Exhibit A: "How to Completely Miss the Point Due to Clinging to Paternalistic Legalism". |
Anonymous
You would be singing a different tune if is were selling dope to your kid. OP, get your son out of this mess before one it |
Anonymous
You would be singing a different tune if is were selling dope to your kid. OP, get your son out of this mess before. it I'd too late. Report the dealer |
Anonymous
You would be singing a different tune if is were selling dope to your kid. OP, get your son out of this mess before. it I'd too late. Report the dealer |
Anonymous
Agreed: Legalize pot now. Stop wasting tax money to jail marijuana users and dealers. Make American-grown pot safe and legal for over 21s. Stop steering billions into the hands of Mexican drug gangs that are endangering our national security. |
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Dr. Mike Bradley's e-Newsletter
(Mailing list information, including unsubscription instructions, is located at the end of this message.) PARENTS: BEWARE THE WEEDS OF SUMMER I do hate to be the bearer of scary news but there are a few new things you should know about marijuana. You know, that non-addicting, not-really-a-drug, “thank-God-he-only-does-weed” substance that this nation is about to decriminalize and perhaps even legalize over the next few years. “Eric,” the nice kid who just left my office, seemed to summarize all those views when he said, “I don’t get why you worry about my weed use. God put it on earth to end wars, you know. It’s, like, a one-hundred-percent natural herb. How could it be bad?” I wanted to respond, “You mean just like heroin?” but I knew the timing wasn’t quite right. Because when I try to show kids such as Eric the new science on weed and its impact on fragile, developing teen brains, they reflexively dismiss it as “right-wing-Christian-extremist-drug-cartel-government-sponsored propaganda.” And how do you respond to that? What science do I try to show them? Well, one example is research coming from the Harvard Medical School (you know, that bastion of “right-wing-Christian-extremist-drug-cartel-government-sponsored propaganda.”) That study, presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego a few weeks ago, shows people who start using marijuana as teens have substantial cognitive shortfalls as adults. It also showed that the more marijuana a person used in adolescence, the more trouble they had with focus and attention as adults. "Early onset smokers have a different pattern of brain activity, plus got far fewer correct answers in a row and made way more errors on certain cognitive tests," says study author Staci Gruber, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "Our results provide further evidence that marijuana use has a direct effect on executive function, and that both age of onset and magnitude of marijuana use can significantly influence cognitive processing," says Gruber. "Given the prevalence of marijuana use in the United States, these findings underscore the importance of establishing effective strategies to decrease marijuana use, especially in younger populations," she says. After reviewing Gruber’s data, Frances Jensen, professor of neurology at Children's Hospital Boston (another extremist hotbed) noted, “There's a myth that teen brains will bounce back, that they are really resilient, but in fact they may not be. It appears that they may be more vulnerable to drug use." While a young brain is more "plastic" and able to learn, it can "maladapt" to the powerful and apparently permanent effects of weed, says Jensen. Virtually all recent studies (those measuring the impacts of today’s weed which is 3 to 9 times as potent as the old weed) show similar findings. “So, OK,” Eric would concede, “maybe it can make you kinda’ stupid sometimes, but no way anyone gets addicted to weed.” Really!? Survey results released two weeks ago by The Partnership at Drugfree.org and MetLife Foundation found that marijuana use – particularly heavy use – has increased dramatically among U.S. high school students from 2008 to 2011. The Partnership Attitude Tracking Study found that 9 percent of teens (nearly 1.5 million) smoked marijuana heavily (at least 20 times) in the past month. Heavy marijuana use is up 80 percent among U.S. teens since 2008. This corresponds frighteningly with other research showing that kids who start regularly using addictive substances (drugs or alcohol) at age 14 have at least a five-hundred-percent increased risk of addiction over those who do not use until ages 20 to 22 (the age at which most of the teen brain re-wiring seems to finish up). So, yes, weed is a dangero us teen drug, one that explodes in use with the advent of summer, just like the other weeds. So get ready for the fight. How much weed use is OK for your kid? My answer is none. I understand that many teen experts advocate a laid-back view of pot smoking, pointing out that the great majority of kids eventually moderate use on their own, and these experts worry that adopting a zero-tolerance policy can lead to great conflicts with teens. I hold that if even just five percent of these kids don’t moderate, and do become addicts, then those odds are unacceptable. If your kid asked to ride a roller coaster that essentially took the life of every twentieth rider, would you be, like, “cool” with that? So share the science with your teen now, and with his siblings starting at age 8 (that is not a misprint). Let them know early on that weed (like alcohol) is NOT the harmless right-of-passage drug as our culture portrays. Your calm, loving and unwavering objection to their drug use will have a profound safety effect in causing them to limit or entirely avoid drug use, especially if you start and end each conversation with, “Sorry, but I love you far too much to be ‘cool’ with things that can take your life.” Things like the weeds of summer. |
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^^^RE the above, the author's info is here:
http://www.docmikebradley.com/about_me.html |
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Pot is mind-altering but not physically addictive (unlike alcohol).
You do not go through withdrawal if you decide to quit smoking it (unlike alcohol). However, for someone with an addiction disease, pot is bad. For an addict teen, pot usage will most likely lead to worse substances, because the addict constantly seeks to increase the buzz. No, I don't have any links to back this up, it is admittedly based solely upon my own experience. I am an addict but have been completely clean and sober for many years now. But I understand addiction painfully well. In spite of all this, I still say LEGALIZE POT. Criminalizing it is only creating more problems than are already going to inevitably be there because addiction is something that will continue to present itself in each generation. Criminalizing is NOT going to eradicate addiction, nor will legalizing it create addiction. |
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I just found out my 16 year old is smoking pot. Our house has erupted into WW3. OP- can you give me any advice? Did things calm down for you?
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I think the just say no advice is unrealistic. All it does is remove you from the picture. Not that we should be encouraging our children to smoke pot, but I do think we need to be realistic. Wendy Mogel, author of Lessons of a Skinned Knee has a new book called Lessons of a B- (a really good book about raising teens) in which she says parents should absolutely tell their children not to try pot, but also understand that it is likely that the will.
I am not in favor of legalizing pot. I think too many social problems come with that and there is a reason why the Netherlands is moving away from its openness. I think its perfectly fine to make the decision as a community that we don't want to take on the effects of legal pot. But I also know that my teen has tried it. I have not told him it is OK and if I thought he was doing it at all regularly I would step in. But I'm not going to come down hard on some experimentation. That would only close the door between us. The Mike Bradley post is just too hysterical. We all know that most people who try pot do not lose their brains or become addicts. So why should we tell our children this? How much credibility will we have? I also think there is a huge difference between a 14 year-old trying pot and a 16 year-old. But don;t we all know that most people try pot at some point in their lives, generally in their late teens? telling teens that their brains will be damaged forever is like chowing them Reefer Madness and expecting them to take it seriously. |