Cannabis Use Not Linked with Psychosocial Harm

The Lancet ^ | 17 May, 2004 | Charnicia E. Huggins

[VaBthang4]

[jayef]

This is utter nonsense. Proportionately, I'd be willing to bet that alcohol abusers display more of these characteristics than marijuana users.

[marty60]

One child living in this haze is to many. Although,I have seen more than one. I have never understood the reasoning that living in a passive stupor is beneficial. I know drug and alcohol is used as an escape. But, what's the point? This obsession with mind numbing is beyond me. I guess it must be a desperate situation for some, especially the way our resident Pot Heads defend it.

[CSM]

The link is to Rueters. They credit the source in their story. What is wrong with crediting the original source as credited by the article? If I post a link to an article on FR should I list the source as FR or the original source?

[ActionNewsBill]

Yawn.

[george wythe]

Back in the early 1990s, I wrote a college paper on drugs. One of my sources was a recorded message from the local phone company that provided a teen-oriented switchboard.

Although provided by the phone company as free service, the recorded messages had been prepared by a major university; the messages dealt with everything interesting to a teenager, from drugs to fashion.

The particular message that I quoted in my term paper dealt with marijuana and its lack of pernicious side effects. Although the whole message was anti-marijuana because of the current legal complications, it specifically debunked all the myths about marijuana being physically harmful.

Sure enough, local goody-two-shoes complained to the phone company, and the message on marijuana was deleted. A few months later, another anti-marijuana message was added in which the previously debunked studies were quoted as "proof" that marijuana is physically harmful.

For me, this was a watershed moment. It seems that the drug warriors use intimidation to silent legitimate opposition voices.

[bc2]

Were you drunk when you wrote that crap? 10:55am is a little early to be blitzed. You forgot to check your post for cohesive thoughts, complete sentences, spelling errors... common sense...

[Know your rights]

I've known many regular pot smokers, and every one went on to regular use of other illegal drugs.

Really? Or are you making a rhetorical point?

OK. Now what?

We agree that it's dangerous to extrapolate one's personal experiences into general rules, and that it's not generally true that "Pot is such a boring drug, in no time the user looks for something else."

[itsamelman]

[Know your rights]

Ideas are rebuttals

No, facts are rebuttals, and some slacker trying to blame a drug rather than himself for his failings does not make it a fact.

[Know your rights]

One child living in this haze is to many.

One child living in an alcohol haze is too many. But is that good enough reason to make alcohol illegal for adults? (And does making a drug illegal for adults make it more or less available to kids? I've heard that youth drunkenness went up during Prohibition.)

[robertpaulsen]

Hey, hey! You didn't call MrLeRoy full of it. His anecdotal story was equally irrelevant.

[zook]

"No, facts are rebuttals, and some slacker trying to blame a drug rather than himself for his failings does not make it a fact."

The ideas in the song represent empirical evidence and, in turn, reality. If you don't accept that drugs like pot and others can influence and change an adolescent's personality, character, and behavior, then you are either simply a fool, have smoked too much, or both.

[ActionNewsBill]

BUMP

[Protagoras]

Nice post,,,,,,for a fifth grader.

[robertpaulsen]

"We agree that it's dangerous to extrapolate one's personal experiences into general rules"

The point of my post.

"and that it's not generally true that "Pot is such a boring drug, in no time the user looks for something else."

I'll let tbird5 defend his own statement.

[68 grunt]

I've known many regular pot smokers, and every one went on to regular use of other illegal drugs.

OK. Now what?

You don't count, you're a known liar.

[Know your rights]

The ideas in the song represent empirical evidence

No, they represent an attempt to evade personal responsibility.

If you don't accept [zook's claims] then you are either simply a fool, have smoked too much, or both.

Sorry, that's not a rebuttal either. Come back when you're ready to converse on an adult level.

[Know your rights]

The point of my post.

Why? Who proposed to extrapolate their personal experiences into general rules?

[zook]

You're blind. You've no experience in the real world. There is a huge body of literature indicating pot's harmful impact on adolescent learning and motivation. No, I won't give you cites because (1) it would be like appealing to a "flat earther" and (2) because no amount of studies would ever satisfy you.

Come back when you get a brain. In the meantime, don't expect to defend pot for kids on this site and not get trashed. See post 41 for starters.