Thread: Teen marijuana use falls.

Teen marijuana use falls as more states legalize - The Washington Post

Take a good read of that. The Go to talking point of most Anti legalization people is that it will lead to teen drug use.
As you can see that is NOT true.

The marijuana findings are particularly noteworthy given that Colorado and Washington state implemented full-scale retail marijuana markets this year, and Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C., voters opted to do the same. A central tenet of legalization opponents, from present-day prohibitionists like Andy Harris all the way back to Richard Nixon, has been that loosening restrictions on marijuana will "send the wrong" message to youngsters and lead to an explosion in teen use.

Harris sums up the mindset best in a recent appearance at the Heritage Foundation: "Relaxing [marijuana] laws clearly leads to more teenage drug use. It should be intuitively obvious to everyone that if you legalize marijuana for adults, more children will use marijuana because the message that it's dangerous will be blunted."

While it's a politically potent message -- nobody wants to see more kids doing drugs -- there's a substantial body of research showing that teen pot use hasn't risen in the states that have legalized medical marijuana. In 2014, a year when marijuana was all over the news and national attitudes toward the drug are relaxing, teen use actually trended downward.

Or, look at it from the other side: In the early 1990s the federal drug war was in full swing. But teen marijuana use spiked sharply during that period. It didn't start falling until the late '90s, when the first states began implementing medical marijuana laws.

I don't buy their study. I doubt that many of the middle schoolers were telling much of the truth. Also, I could give a shiite about weed. Make it legal, and just get it over with. It won't affect the supply, or the demand, as anyone with a pulse can get it in under 5 minutes, anywhere. I'm not sure if I am more tired of the debate, or the debators at this point.

The part of the study that I think is off is the Amphetamines and Heroin. Speaking anecdotally, I wouldn't have had an idea of where, or how to get either of those back in HS (1990), and if they were to be had, I ran with the crowd who would have had them. Now, they are extremely common to find in your local HS, and many schools have multiple OD's under their belt. The graph in the article shows absolutely no incline in amphetimine or heroin use in the last 25 years, and we know that is absolutely false.

Originally Posted by SmokenScion

Teen marijuana use falls as more states legalize - The Washington Post

Take a good read of that. The Go to talking point of most Anti legalization people is that it will lead to teen drug use.
As you can see that is NOT true.

That's for old people it's all about molly and meth.