Love a spliff myself, yeah, no escaping the mental lethargy that goes hand in hand with most strains and turns into a habitual addiction painfully easily. Even now, as a grown assed adult I have to enforce long stretches of abstinence when it comes to weed and it is not easy to kick that habit at the start.
If someone could kindly summarise, so I don’t have to put up with him.
I can’t listen to this rn but can anyone give me a summary of what she said?
Do you know what would decrease the number of teens using unsafe, potentially contaminated cannabis that they interact with criminal elements to obtain? Legalisation.
Research has found that areas where weed is legal have seen a decrease in teen usage. It actually makes it more difficult for teens to obtain marijuana as drug dealers are replaced by licensed dispensaries that require proof of age. If you add in some recreational laws and age limits, then selling to minors becomes a relatively more risky, less lucrative proposition.
If alcohol is legal, there’s no reason cannabis shouldn’t be.
The person making these statements has previously:
> urged parents to start testing their own kids for drugs and checking any new plants appearing in their bedrooms
And also:
> Alcohol mixed with cocaine creates another chemical in the liver which can cause sudden death. Cannabis is a psychoactive mood-altering drug which causes changes to the brain similar to schizophrenia
I’m not stating the interview in this post is incorrect, but I find a lot of these people are highly qualified Maude Flanders types that are prone to exaggeration and moral panic, something which immediately encourages people to disregard their more accurate statements.
Cannabis is a very powerful drug and like any drug, extreme caution and most likely abstinence is the best policy when it comes to introducing it to young people.
I started smoking it at 15 and regret it, aside from the mental effects (definitely don’t feel as sharp now) but the social effect – teachers treating you with suspicion all the time, friend’s parents not wanting you around, your own parents knowing full well what you’re up to, etc.
I plan on knocking it on the head completely for a while and then only doing it the odd time as a treat, I plan to do so with the drink as well, another drug I desperately need to improve my relationship with.
Unless they say, poor education on drugs, not just cannabis, they’re completely wrong.
Newstalk isn’t news or even talk. Its just dumb opinions.
Reefer madness, like what fucking year is it?
Fucking tabloids. These are people that hired Claire Byrne, vapid cunts.
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Love a spliff myself, yeah, no escaping the mental lethargy that goes hand in hand with most strains and turns into a habitual addiction painfully easily. Even now, as a grown assed adult I have to enforce long stretches of abstinence when it comes to weed and it is not easy to kick that habit at the start.
If someone could kindly summarise, so I don’t have to put up with him.
I can’t listen to this rn but can anyone give me a summary of what she said?
Do you know what would decrease the number of teens using unsafe, potentially contaminated cannabis that they interact with criminal elements to obtain? Legalisation.
Research has found that areas where weed is legal have seen a decrease in teen usage. It actually makes it more difficult for teens to obtain marijuana as drug dealers are replaced by licensed dispensaries that require proof of age. If you add in some recreational laws and age limits, then selling to minors becomes a relatively more risky, less lucrative proposition.
If alcohol is legal, there’s no reason cannabis shouldn’t be.
**Sources:**
* [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-teens-marijuana-laws-idUSKCN1U32HL](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-teens-marijuana-laws-idUSKCN1U32HL)
* [https://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/view/how-legalization-impacts-teen-marijuana-use](https://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/view/how-legalization-impacts-teen-marijuana-use)
* [https://drugabuse.com/blog/marijuana-vs-alcohol/](https://drugabuse.com/blog/marijuana-vs-alcohol/)
The person making these statements has previously:
> urged parents to start testing their own kids for drugs and checking any new plants appearing in their bedrooms
And also:
> Alcohol mixed with cocaine creates another chemical in the liver which can cause sudden death. Cannabis is a psychoactive mood-altering drug which causes changes to the brain similar to schizophrenia
[Source](https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30910424.html)
I’m not stating the interview in this post is incorrect, but I find a lot of these people are highly qualified Maude Flanders types that are prone to exaggeration and moral panic, something which immediately encourages people to disregard their more accurate statements.
Cannabis is a very powerful drug and like any drug, extreme caution and most likely abstinence is the best policy when it comes to introducing it to young people.
I started smoking it at 15 and regret it, aside from the mental effects (definitely don’t feel as sharp now) but the social effect – teachers treating you with suspicion all the time, friend’s parents not wanting you around, your own parents knowing full well what you’re up to, etc.
I plan on knocking it on the head completely for a while and then only doing it the odd time as a treat, I plan to do so with the drink as well, another drug I desperately need to improve my relationship with.
Unless they say, poor education on drugs, not just cannabis, they’re completely wrong.
Newstalk isn’t news or even talk. Its just dumb opinions.
Reefer madness, like what fucking year is it?
Fucking tabloids. These are people that hired Claire Byrne, vapid cunts.
All the more reason to regulate the market